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Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and t...
Others might have called this book Micro Theory or Price Theory. Becker's choice of Economic Theory as the title for his book reflects his deep belief...
Gary Becker sees the family as a kind of little factory - a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children and self-esteem from market goo...
From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, how Real-world Issues Affect Our Everyday Life
Not just another book on economics, this thought-provoking collection extends well beyond the traditional range of social science and recommends chang...
The answers to these and many other questions about people's consumption patterns, Becker argues, have to do with the way preferences and values are s...
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. R...
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work, leisure, entrepreneurship...
Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize–winning economist ...
An Analytical Approach
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There is a belief now that family behavior over the life cycle can be analyzed by economic methods. This study deals with allocation of resources by f...
The Nobel Lecture
"Twenty-six essays in this volume showcase the brilliant originality and range of economic thought that earned Hoover Institution senior fellow Gary S...
Examines the general effects of economic discrimination by employers, employees, consumers, and government....
Gilbert R. Ghez and Gary S. Becker
An Economic and Social Perspective
Essays on discrimination, affirmative action and equal opportunity in Canada - comments on labour legislation, human rights legislation and judicial d...
A Radical Solution
The issue of migration has often divided political economists--even those of a broadly free-market perspective--and in this book, Nobel Laureate Gary ...