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Gary Becker Gary Becker received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He taught at Columbia University for 12 years before returning to Chicago as University Professor of Economics in 1970. He also became University Professor of Sociology in 1983. In 1992, Becker was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Among his publications are the books The Economics of Discrimination, Human Capital, Economic Theory, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior, A Treatise on the Family, Accounting For Tastes, and The Economics of Life (with Guity Nashat). His research interests include price theory, human capital and the family, and the application of economic analysis to areas outside of traditional economics. | |||||||||||||||
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