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Becker, Gary S.

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Gary Becker was an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1992 for having expanded the scope of economics to such “outlandish” topics as crime, racial discrimination, education, addiction, fertility choices, and marriage and the family. A member of the Chicago school of economics, he was especially influential in the development of the economic analysis of law.

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  1. THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France

    Jean-Baptiste Fleury

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Fleury, JB. (2019). Becker, Gary S.. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_97

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