Professor of Economics at University of Chicago

Research areas

Human Capital, Family Economics, Economic Analysis of Crime, Discrimination, and Population.

Education Background

1951, B. A., Princeton University

1953, M. A., University of Chicago

1955, Ph.D., University of Chicago

Experiences

1957-1968, Professor, Columbia University

1968-present, Professor, Department of Economics, Department of sociology, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

1992, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

2005-Present Chang Jiang Scholar, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University

Publications

(1) Gary S. Becker (1957, 1971, 2nd ed.). The Economics of Discrimination. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

(2) Gary S. Becker (1964, 1993, 3rd ed.). Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

(3) Gary S. Becker (1965) “A Theory of the Allocation of Time,” Economic Journal 75 (299) pp. 493-517.

(4) Gary Becker (1968). "Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach". The Journal of Political Economy 76 : pp. 169–217

(5) Gary Becker and H. Gregg Lewis (1973). "On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children". The Journal of Political Economy 81: pp. S279–S288

(6) Gary S. Becker (1974). "A Theory of Social Interactions," Journal of Political Economy, 82(6), pp. 1063-1093.

(7) Gary S. Becker and Gilbert Ghez (1975). The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle. New York, Columbia University Press.

(8) Gary S. Becker (1976). The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. University of Chicago Press.

(9) Gary Becker and George J. Stigler (1977). "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum". The American Economic Review 67(2): pp. 76–90.

(10) Gary Becker (1983). "A Theory of Competition among Pressure Groups for Political Influence". The Quarterly Journal of Economics 98: 371-400.

(11) Gary Becker and Kevin M. Murphy (1988). "A Theory of Rational Addiction". The Journal of Political Economy 96: p. 675-700.

(12) Gary S. Becker (1991). A Treatise on the Family, Harvard University Press.

(13) Gary S. Becker (1992). "The Economic Way of Looking at Life" (Nobel Prize Lecture).

(14) Gary S. Becker, (1996), Accounting for Tastes, Harvard University Press.

(15) Gary S. Becker and Guity Nashat Becker (1997). The Economics of Life. McGraw-Hill. Popular essays in 9 parts by subject.

(16) Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy, (2001), Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment, Harvard University Press.

Personal Website

http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/beckerposner/