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In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Gary S. Becker, a Nobel professor of economics at the University of Chicago and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Julio Elias, economics professor at Argentina’s Universidad del CEMA, try...

Edward Lazear of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Gary Becker's innovative contributions to economics. The conversation opens with personal reminiscences by Lazear and Roberts. They then discuss Becker's application of...

Gary Becker wasn’t taken seriously when he began using economic principles to analyze subjects thought to be outside traditional economics, but he eventually changed how economists look at social problems. Whether evaluating the economics of the family...

Markets Everywhere How economist Gary Becker changed our lives JOSHUA LOTT/AP PHOTO The Nobel Prize winner, who died earlier this year, in his University of Chicago office The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right...

I learned this week-end that Gary Becker had died. It's a testament to his significance that general philosophy blogs mentioned this fact (here and here in respectful fasfion). Outside of economics his work is known for two (very) connected features...