Gary Becker - Nobel Prize (1992)

Gary Becker

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1992)

Born: 2 December 1930, Pottsville, PA

Died: 3 May 2014, Chicago, IL

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Prize motivation: "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour"

Field: economic sociology, microeconomics

Contribution: Extended the domain of economic theory to aspects of human behavior which had previously been dealt with by other social science disciplines such as sociology, demography and criminology.

Reference: Gary S Becker - Facts