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“gary s becker”

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  • Human Capital

    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economic Approach

    Unpublished Writings of Gary S. Becker

    Edited by Gary S. Becker, Julio J. Elias, Kevin M. Murphy ...
    A revealing collection from the intellectual titan whose work shaped the modern world.As an economist and public intellectual, Gary S. Becker was a giant. The recipient of a Nobel Prize, a John Bates Clark Medal, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Becker is widely regarded as the greatest microeconomist in history.After forty years at the University of Chicago, Becker left a slew of unpublished ... Read more

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  • The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    A collection of essays analyzing the economic factors underlying human decision-making from the Nobel Prize–winning American economist.Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this ... Read more

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  • Social Economics

    Market Behavior in a Social Environment

    by Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy ...
    Economists assume that people make choices based on their preferences and their budget constraints. The preferences and values of others play no role in the standard economic model. This feature has been sharply criticized by other social scientists, who believe that the choices people make are also conditioned by social and cultural forces. Economists, meanwhile, are not satisfied with standard ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • A Treatise on the Family

    Enlarged Edition

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Imagine each family as a kind of little factory—a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary S. Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Milton Friedman on Economics

    Selected Papers

    by Milton Friedman, Gary S. Becker ...
    Narrated by Kyle Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    On his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the New York Times and "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century" by the Economist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly respected economist and a prominent public intellectual, the leader of a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A Student's Guide

    by John M. Gowdy ...
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    Theory and Policy

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