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Gary Becker, PhD
Gary Becker, PhD

    Dr. Gary S. Becker received his BA from Princeton University, and received a masters and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.  He taught at Columbia University for twelve years before returning to the University of Chicago in 1968.  He has honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Hitotsubashi University, University of Marselles, among others. He is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and is professor of sociology in the Graduate School of Business.  He is also the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, a public policy research center on the campus of Stanford University.

    He won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science in 1992, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, the National Medal of Science in 2000, the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1967, and numerous other awards.  He is recognized for his expertise in human capital, economic incentives, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, and population. For almost 20 years he was a featured monthly columnist for Business Week. He and Judge Richard Posner maintain a blog at www.becker-posner-blog.com, where they debate a new public policy issue every week.

    Dr. Becker has written more than ten books and almost 100 professional articles. His books include Human Capital, The Economics of Discrimination, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior, A Treatise on the Family, The Economics of Life (with Guity Nashat Becker), Social Economics (with Kevin Murphy), and Accounting for Tastes.  His books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, among other languages.

    He is a member of the board of Faster Cures, dedicated to the acceleration of medical cures; the Advisory Committee on Financial Innovation of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and the Hoover Task Force on Energy.

    Schedule28 Mar 2024