Gary Becker, an esteemed economist, the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Nobel laureate passed away on May 3, 2014. Best known for his work in labor economics, Becker studied human behavior and social circumstances previously regarded as insignificant to economics, such as family choices, home life, and discrimination. He had been affiliated with the Hoover Institution since 1973 and a senior fellow there since 1990.

Hoover senior fellow and Nobel laureate Gary Becker passed away on May 3, 2014. A groundbreaking economist who studied human capital and the economics of human behavior, he is one of two scholars to receive both the Nobel Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. Click here for his New York Times obituary, and click here for an obituary by Hoover senior fellow Edward Lazear in the Wall Street Journal. For a personal perspective of Becker as a thinker and a teacher, read Hoover research fellow Russell Robert’s piece remembering his days as a doctoral student in Becker’s classroom.