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Gary S. Becker: the Economist as Empire-builder

In: Twelve Contemporary Economists

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  • J. R. Shackleton

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Few contemporary economists have done as much to extend the generality and range of economic theorising as Professor Gary S. Becker of the University of Chicago. With the exception of one or two papers written as a graduate student, all Becker’s publications have applied economic reasoning to aspects of human behaviour which have usually been classified as outside the scope of economics, at least since the discipline started to give itself scientific airs in the latter years of the nineteenth century.

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  • J. R. Shackleton, 1981. "Gary S. Becker: the Economist as Empire-builder," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: J. R. Shackleton & Gareth Locksley (ed.), Twelve Contemporary Economists, chapter 2, pages 12-32, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05498-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05498-5_2
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    1. Pedro Teixeira, 2014. "Gary Becker’s early work on human capital – collaborations and distinctiveness," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 3(1), pages 1-20, December.

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