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Gary Becker was a distinguished economist known for his research on human capital, criminology, demography, labor economics, and public choice. His interdisciplinary approach applied economic principles to non-market areas, making significant contributions to the development of economics.

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“Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.”

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Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

“I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.”

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Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

“My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.”

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Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

About the Author

Born: December 2, 1930
Died: May 3, 2014
Known for: Economist
Quotes: 15

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