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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Becker has received more than 940,273 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Becker is the 46th most popular economist (down from 41st in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from United States (down from 564th in 2019) and the 9th 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 46 out of 414. Before him are Robert Solow, Maurice Allais, Ronald Coase, Friedrich List, Paul Krugman, and Bernard Mandeville. After him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, William Stanley Jevons, Murray Rothbard, John Hicks, Thorstein Veblen, and Tansu Çiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gary Becker ranks 41. Before him are Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Zhores Alferov, Ali al-Sistani, George E. Smith, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, and Edsger W. Dijkstra. After him are Bernie Ecclestone, Biljana Plavšić, Akira Suzuki, Derek Walcott, Félix Guattari, and Lorin Maazel. Among people deceased in 2014, Gary Becker ranks 29. Before him are Bob Hoskins, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Richard Attenborough, H. R. Giger, Harold Ramis, and Richard Kiel. After him are Martin Lewis Perl, Adolfo Suárez, Lorin Maazel, Jack Brabham, Masaru Emoto, and Maya Angelou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Becker ranks 653 out of 20,380. Before him are John Dillinger (1903), Alec Baldwin (1958), Lionel Richie (1949), Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), and George Minot (1885). After him are Matthew C. Perry (1794), John Glenn (1921), Billy Graham (1918), Joe Louis (1914), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), and Michael Crichton (1942).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Gary Becker ranks 9. Before him are Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Michael Porter (1947), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Robert Solow (1924), and Paul Krugman (1953). After him are Murray Rothbard (1926), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Douglass North (1920), Theodore Schultz (1902), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and Irving Fisher (1867).

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