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Gary S. Becker
Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow
Expertise: Human capital, economics of the family, economic analysis of crime, discrimination and population
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RECENT COMMENTARY
- Bail Out the Big Three Auto Producers? Not a Good Idea
Becker-Posner Blog , November, 16, 2008
- Depressions Cause a lot More Pain than Benefits
Becker-Posner Blog , November, 09, 2008
- Does the Free Market Corrode Moral Character?
Becker-Posner Blog , November, 02, 2008
- Observations on the Milton Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
Becker-Posner Blog , October, 26, 2008
- Hoover Op-Ed Archive
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AWARDS & HONORS
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- Econometric Society (elected fellow)
- Jacob Mincer Prize (2004)
- John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association (1967)
- National Academy of Education
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Association for Business Economics Adam Smith Award (1991)
- National Medal of Science (2000)
- Nobel Prize (1992)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)
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Gary S. Becker, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science in 1992, is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is an expert in human capital, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, and population. His current research focuses on habits and addictions, formation of preferences, human capital, and population growth. He is a featured monthly columnist for Business Week magazine and is one of the initial fellows of the Society of Labor Economists. In addition to being a Nobel laureate, Becker is a recipient of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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