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According to Wikipedia, Gary Stanley Becker 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.

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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education (1964) (14799)
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis (1962) (6883)
A Treatise on the Family (1982) (5479)
A Theory of the Allocation of Time (1965) (4909)
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence (1983) (4049)
A Theory of Social Interactions (1974) (3814)
A Theory of Marriage: Part I (1973) (3799)
A Theory of Rational Addiction (1988) (3761)
The Economics of Discrimination. (1957) (2794)
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior (1978) (2492)
An Economic Analysis of Fertility (1960) (2295)
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor (1985) (2261)
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth (1990) (2235)
Front matter, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education (1965) (2202)
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility (1979) (2093)
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children (1973) (1895)
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability (1977) (1781)
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers (1974) (1759)
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection (1972) (1728)
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children (1976) (1601)
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior (1993) (1446)
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference (1997) (1392)
A Treatise on the Family: Enlarged Edition (1993) (1330)
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox (2008) (1213)
Irrational Behavior and Economic Theory (1962) (1075)
Fertility Choice In A Model Of Economic Growth (1989) (1075)
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality (2003) (827)
Accounting for Tastes (1997) (799)
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology (1976) (783)
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good (1993) (710)
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price (1991) (708)
A Theory of Marriage: Part II (1974) (688)
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs (1985) (635)
The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle (1975) (616)
Altruism in the Family and Selfishness in the Market Place (1981) (549)
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. (1978) (537)
ON THE NEW THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (1973) (527)
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness (2007) (407)
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption (1991) (404)
The Family and the State (1988) (378)
Human capital and the personal distribution of income : an analytical approach (1985) (365)
Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment (2001) (345)
Introducing incentives in the market for live and cadaveric organ donations. (2007) (333)
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions (1992) (323)
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions 1 (2007) (323)
The Economic Way of Looking at Life (1992) (300)
Family Economics and Macro Behavior (1988) (296)
Schools and Skills in Developing Countries : Education Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes (2002) (278)
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government* (1998) (244)
Population and Economic Growth (1999) (239)
Human Capital Revisited (1994) (229)
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women (2010) (219)
Competition and Democracy (1958) (202)
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis (2011) (201)
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs (2006) (190)
Fertility and the economy (1992) (185)
Old‐Age Longevity and Mortality‐Contingent Claims (1998) (180)
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status (2005) (177)
Investment in Human Beings (1962) (167)
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment. Edited by G.S. Becker and W.M. Landes, New York, National Bureau of Economics Research, 1974, XVII p. 268 p. (1979) (149)
An economic analysis of the family (1986) (142)
Underinvestment in College Education (1975) (122)
'Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker': American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures (2012) (121)
The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture (1996) (120)
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings (1975) (113)
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility (2018) (110)
Human capital and poverty alleviation (1995) (91)
'Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment': A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session (2013) (88)
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective (2007) (88)
Human Capital. A Theorical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education (1967) (79)
The Classical Monetary Theory. The Outcome of the Discussion1 (1952) (77)
On the Economics of Climate Policy (2011) (71)
Economics or Ethics? (2001) (70)
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation (1976) (68)
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs (2004) (68)
The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life (1995) (65)
The new economics of human behavior: HEALTH, RELIGION, AND MASS BEHAVIOR (1995) (62)
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle (1975) (57)
Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment (2013) (56)
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family (1974) (54)
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women (2010) (52)
The Manipulation of Children’s Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children’s Human Capital (2016) (50)
Altruism and the Economic Theory of Fertility (1986) (49)
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE (2010) (47)
Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism (2009) (46)
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment (1976) (44)
Terminal Care and the Value of Life Near its End (2010) (44)
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence (1982) (43)
On the Economics of the Family: Reply to a Skeptic (1989) (42)
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions -super-1 (2007) (38)
A Statistical Illusion in Judging Keynesian Models (1957) (38)
The Economics of Discrimination: An Economic View of Racial Discrimination. (1958) (36)
Peer Comparisons and Consumer Debt (2006) (34)
More than Enough (1997) (34)
The Future of Law and Economics (2014) (33)
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace (2007) (32)
Rational Action and Economic Theory: A Reply to I. Kirzner (1963) (31)
The future of pension systems (2003) (29)
Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation: Comment (1972) (29)
The Challenge of Immigration: A Radical Solution (2011) (28)
Suicide: An Economic Approach (2004) (27)
Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity (1982) (26)
Economics of Marital Instability (1976) (26)
FAMILY BACKGROUND AND OPTIMAL SCHOOLING DECISIONS (1980) (25)
A Methodological Comparison of (2001) (23)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition (1975) (22)
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital (1994) (21)
The Adam Smith Address: Education, Labor Force Quality, and the Economy (1992) (21)
On the Economics of Capital Punishment (2006) (19)
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort (1977) (19)
A Comment on the Conference on Cost‐Benefit Analysis (2000) (18)
Growing human capital investment in China compared to falling investment in the United States (2012) (17)
Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers (2008) (15)
George Joseph Stigler: January 17, 1911-December 1, 1991 (1993) (14)
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality (2000) (13)
Roundtable Discussion (1989) (13)
Gary Becker's Human Capital: A Review Article (1967) (13)
Accounting for the Growth of Government (2000) (13)
EVOLUTIONARY EFFICIENCY AND MEAN REVERSION IN HAPPINESS (2004) (12)
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle (1975) (12)
The economics of crime (1995) (11)
! ! Using ! Prediction ! Markets ! to ! Track ! Information ! Flows : ! ! Evidence ! from ! Google 1 ! (11)
Political Competition among Interest Groups (1989) (11)
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance (1996) (11)
Specialization, Inequality, and the Labor Market for Married Women (2002) (10)
Editorial: A Note on This Issue (1989) (10)
Privacy and Malfeasance: A Comment (1980) (10)
Discrimination, affirmative action, and equal opportunity : an economic and social perspective (1982) (10)
ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF HAPPINESS (2003) (9)
Economic Approaches to Understanding Families (2004) (9)
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies (2006) (8)
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture * (2006) (7)
COSTS AND INCOME EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE EROSION CONTROL STRATEGIES: THE HONEY CREEK WATERSHED (1979) (7)
How Uncle Sam could ease the organ shortage (1997) (7)
The division of labor (1992) (7)
Why Keynes underestimated consumption and overestimated leisure for the long run (2008) (6)
Comments and Discussion (2008) (6)
Give Us Your Skilled Masses (2005) (6)
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply (1958) (6)
Happiness, Income and Economic Policy (2010) (5)
2. Social Forces, Preferences, and Complementarity (2000) (5)
Rates of Return from College Education (1975) (5)
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle (1975) (4)
Chicago Law and Economics (2020) (4)
The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles (2000) (4)
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY (2006) (4)
The Effect of the State on the Family (1978) (4)
SCHOOLS, SKILLS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EDUCATION POLICIES, STUDENT LEARNING AND SOCIOECONOMIC OUTCOMES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (2002) (4)
Cross-Cultural Differences in Family and Sexual Life (1993) (4)
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop (2006) (4)
Reply to Kuh and Johnston (1958) (4)
Is Voting Rational or Instrumental (2017) (4)
Towards An Understanding Of The Global Market System: A New Perspective For Economics (2002) (4)
Paying for tissue: net benefits. (2012) (3)
ABSTRACT Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time (2014) (3)
THE BENEFITS OF MISCOMMUNICATION IN COMMUNICATION GAMES (2013) (2)
Comments on Danzon, Maki, Murray, and Allen (1993) (2)
A Theory of Rational Junk-Food Consumption (2003) (2)
Is soCIal CaPItal rEally tHE CaPItal In tErms of EConomICs? (2015) (2)
The process of government (1995) (2)
The Scarcity Principle (2017) (2)
Virtuous Circles? Human Capital Formation, Economic Development, and the Multinational Enterprise Organised by the Oecd Development Centre (2)
Becker’s Theories of Marriage and the Shrinking Role of Demand and Supply Models (2006) (1)
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited (1995) (1)
9. Fads and Fashion (2000) (1)
Demand for Factors (2017) (1)
Experience and Technology Adoption May 2002 (2002) (1)
Massive Influence with Scarce Contributions : the rationalizing economist (2015) (1)
6 Improved Employment Reduces Crime : Evidence from the African American Experience and Implications for Australia (2000) (1)
Economists and Public Policy: The Relevance Debate@@@The Economic Approach to Public Policy@@@The Economic Approach to Human Behavior@@@Economists at Bay: Why the Experts Will Never Solve Your Problems@@@The Economists (1978) (1)
Preference Formation within Families (2019) (1)
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital (2014) (1)
1 Children ’ s Schooling and Parents ’ Behavior : Evidence from the Head Start Impact (2012) (1)
Assessing the World Economy (2003) (1)
On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances (2006) (1)
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Investment in Human Beings (2015) (1)
Memorandum to Beleaguered Buyers; Topic: Microcomputer Purchases. (1982) (1)
Beyond the Dot.com Crash (2008) (1)
Multiple Prosecutions and Punishments under RICO: A Chip off the Old Blockburger Recent Developments in RICO (1983) (1)
Appendix: Sources and Methods (1962) (1)
Economic growth, inequality and population growth . The family and the state (1987) (1)
2 Utility-Based Altruism : Evidence in Favour (2005) (1)
5. Segregation and Integration in Neighborhoods (2000) (1)
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Investment in Human Beings (2015) (1)
THE THEORETICAL BASES OF ENTERPRISE HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (2019) (1)
Back Matter (1969) (0)
Part V. JOBS AND EMPLOYMENT (2019) (0)
Interview with Gary Becker: «I think It is a Good Idea to Do Research in Economic Sociology» (2010) (0)
DATA APPENDIX Natality and Mortality Data by Region (2011) (0)
Back Matter (1988) (0)
Fundamentals of Supply (2017) (0)
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis (1975) (0)
Unemployment in Europe and the United States (1996) (0)
Theoretical Model and Empirical Background (2001) (0)
Introduction to the First Edition (1975) (0)
10. The Formation of Norms and Values (2000) (0)
Kydland-Prescott, Long-Plosser, and King-Plosser: development and cross-fertilization, referees and revision* (2008) (0)
Appendix B, Mathematical Discussion of Relation between Age, Earnings, and Wealth (1994) (0)
Publication Abstracts (2012) (0)
NET NEUTRALITYAND CONSUMERWELFARE (2011) (0)
Review Essay: Social Roles and Economic Firms: The Sociology of Human Capital1 (2016) (0)
HAPPINESS ,I NCOME AND ECONOMIC POLICY (2010) (0)
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality (March 2005) (2005) (0)
1. The Importance of Social Interactions (2000) (0)
No Article Title (2014) (0)
Volume Information (1994) (0)
on the first draft of this paper. Takeshi (1977) (0)
Prefatory Note (1976) (0)
Front matter, preface, tables of content (1968) (0)
Front Matter (“Préface”) (2021) (0)
*Universlty of Chicago; University of Chicago and NBER, respectively. (1977) (0)
Elementary Career Education Activities: Grades 4, 5, 6. (1974) (0)
Volume Information (1993) (0)
Competition and Monopoly (2017) (0)
The Economic Approach (2023) (0)
Volume Information (1992) (0)
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time (1994) (0)
George Joseph Stigler. January 11,1911 - December 1,1991 (1992) (0)
Is Italy ’ s University Reform Really A Failure ? (2011) (0)
Front matter, The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle (1975) (0)
Part I. SEX AND POPULATION (2019) (0)
Introduction to the Becker- Posner Blog (2019) (0)
THE GEORGE J . STIGLER CENTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (2004) (0)
Aranzadi , Javier : Liberalism against Liberalism : Theoretical analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and (2008) (0)
7. Social Markets and the Escalation of Quality: TheWorld of Veblen Revisited (with Edward Glaeser) (2000) (0)
Munich Personal RePEc Archive (2019) (0)
UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES (1996) (0)
Investment in higher education by race and ethnicity (2018) (0)
3. Are Choices “Rational” When Social Capital Is Important? (2000) (0)
Economic Decision-Making and Ethical Choice (2009) (0)
Front matter, Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment (1974) (0)
The Free‐Market Economy Is Fundametally Healthy (2009) (0)
A THEORY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY (2016) (0)
Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? (1999) (0)
Interactions between Architecture and Fashion in the Age of Creative Industries (2013) (0)
Economics and Sociology (2020) (0)
NBER Reporter: Spring 2001 Efficiency and Equity in Education (2014) (0)
Economic and Land Management Analysis in Honey Creek Watershed. (1977) (0)
An Isolationist Hegemon? ‐ Summer 2001 (2008) (0)
Connicts and Common Interests in Committees Suny at Buualo (1999) (0)
Human Capital , Fertility , and Economic Growth Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Engels, F. 71 Esteban, R 79 Etzioni, A. 189,266 Evan, W M. 259 Fastow, A. 167,168 (2006) (0)
Part VII. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT AND TERRORISM (2019) (0)
Part II. PROPERTY RIGHTS (2019) (0)
The University of Chicago The University of Chicago Law School (2008) (0)
ABSTRACT Motivating Altruism: A Field Study * (2008) (0)
Review Essay: The Sociological Economics (2016) (0)
Human Capital (1983) (0)
Selling the Right to Immigrate1 (2011) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries (1970) (0)
Production by the Firm and Industry (2017) (0)
Políticas públicas, grupos de presión y costes sociales (1996) (0)
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments (1993) (0)
Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory: Habits, Addictions, and Traditions (1991) (1998) (0)
On the Relevance of the Nvew Economics of the Family (2016) (0)
registrants at the 1988 Australasian Meetings in Canberra. Others may receive the same information by writing to the Program Chairman. Programme Committee: George E. Battese (Chair), Jonathan Baldry, D.S. Prasada Rao, (2016) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries (1970) (0)
Book Reviews Editor's Note: Guidelines for Selecting Books to Review a General Economics and Teaching (0)
DeGlobalize The Jihad ‐ Fall 2006 (2008) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective (1970) (0)
6. The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles (withWilliam Landes) (2000) (0)
Economics and the Good Life (2017) (0)
Volume Information (1977) (0)
US Financial Crisis Is a Black Eye for Capitalism (2008) (0)
8. Status and Inequality (with IvánWerning) (2000) (0)
Accumulation of Capital over Time (2017) (0)
Back Matter (1972) (0)
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys (2022) (0)
What most distinguishes economics as a discipline from other disciplines in the social sciences is not its subject matter but its approach ’ (2012) (0)
11 Diversity Statement 13 Maternity , Parental , and Other Caregiving Leaves of Absence 14 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for 2003 – 04 — (2005) (0)
Returns to schooling and the decision to attend college : a literature review (2018) (0)
Economic Growth, Inequality and Population Growth (1987) (0)
4. Sorting by Marriage (2000) (0)
Introduction to the Second Edition (1994) (0)

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