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Gary S. Becker
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 229
Citations - 140384
Gary S. Becker is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human capital & Consumption (economics). The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 227 publications receiving 135183 citations. Previous affiliations of Gary S. Becker include Columbia University & EAFIT University.
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Human capital and poverty alleviation
TL;DR: A transcript of a lecture presented by the author on the importance of human resources development as a means of poverty mitigation and the valuation of human capital in national wealth is given in this paper.
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The Classical Monetary Theory. The Outcome of the Discussion1
Gary S. Becker,William J. Baumol +1 more
TL;DR: A summary of the results of the discussion is now appropriate, and that the conflicting views can be evaluated and to some extent reconciled as mentioned in this paper, and the arguments can be stated rigorously without recourse to the mathematical apparatus which has been employed.
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Becker and foucault on crime and punishment
TL;DR: For instance, the authors explores potential overlaps, complementarities, and conflicts between Foucault's theoretical work on punishment and Becker's economic theory of crime, building on the previous confrontation over American neoliberalism, and provides a bridge between contemporary French philosophy and American economic theory.
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A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and inter-generational mobility and showed that even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest more in their offspring than poorer ones.
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Toward a More General Theory of Regulation
TL;DR: Becker as discussed by the authors proposed a more general theory of regulation, which he called Towards a More General Theory of Regulation (TTHR), which is a generalization of the more general Theory of Law and Economics (TLE).