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Gary Becker

1930 - 2014

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Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics. Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Becker their favorite living economist over the age of 60, followed by Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Becker is the 52nd most popular economist (down from 46th in 2019), the 856th most popular biography from United States (down from 653rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Economist.

Gary Becker was an American economist and a professor at the University of Chicago. He is most famous for applying economic principles to other social sciences, such as sociology, criminology, and family studies.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Gary Becker ranks 52 out of 414Before him are Walt Whitman Rostow, William Petty, Bertil Ohlin, Tansu Çiller, Edmund Phelps, and Ronald Coase. After him are Trygve Haavelmo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Karl Polanyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Werner Sombart, and Theodore Schultz.

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Among people born in 1930, Gary Becker ranks 50Before him are Tony Lip, Hugh Everett III, Pat Robertson, Joanne Woodward, Harold Pinter, and Immanuel Wallerstein. After him are Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Bernie Ecclestone, Akira Suzuki, Biljana Plavšić, Tippi Hedren, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Among people deceased in 2014, Gary Becker ranks 29Before him are Virna Lisi, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Alain Resnais, Christopher Hogwood, Maya Angelou, and Richard Attenborough. After him are Jack Brabham, Bob Hoskins, Pete Seeger, Lorin Maazel, Harold Ramis, and Adolfo Suárez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Becker ranks 856 out of 20,380Before him are Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Laura Bush (1946), Monica Lewinsky (1973), Isaac Singer (1811), Edmund Phelps (1933), and Paul Morphy (1837). After him are Michio Kaku (1947), Larry Fink (1952), John Coltrane (1926), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Lady Gaga (1986), and Lana Turner (1921).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Gary Becker ranks 13Before him are Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), and Edmund Phelps (1933). After him are Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Theodore Schultz (1902), Douglass North (1920), Lawrence Klein (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), and Thorstein Veblen (1857).