Stanford Report, October 3, 2001
Gary Becker
Gary Becker, 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; at Hoover 1990-present. Awarded the 1992 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including nonmarket behavior."
Since receiving
the prize, Becker has focused his research on habits and addictions, formation
of preferences, human capital and population growth. He is a columnist
for Business Week and served as an economic policy adviser in the 1996
Bob Dole presidential campaign.
- The
Nobel prize: 100 years of honoring achievement
- Becker's
faculty profile
- Are
We Hurting or Helping the Disabled? (article by Becker) (Hoover
Digest, 2000)
- Becker
named national Medal of Science recipient (Hoover
Institution Newsletter, Winter 2001)
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