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December 2, 1930
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May 3, 2014
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Economics of Discrimination (1957) Human Capital (1964) Allocation of time (1965) Economics of crime and punishment (1968) A Treatise on the Family (1981) rotten kid theorem
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Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.
Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Becker their favorite living economist over the age of 60, followed by Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow. Economist Justin Wolfers called him "the most important social scientist in the past 50 years.
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