Becker, Gary Stanley
Born: Dec 02, 1930 AD
Currently alive, at 81 years of age.
Nationality:
American
Categories:
Economists
1930 - Born on the 2nd of December in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
1951 - Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University.
1955 - Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
1957 - He taught at Columbia University.
- Returned to Chicago, where he still teaches price theory to new graduate students.
1967 - Won the John Bates Clark Medal.
1987 - President of American Economic Association.
1992 - Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
2000 - Becker received the National Medal of Science.
2004 - Wrote a monthly column for Business Week.
- In December, Becker started a joint weblog with Judge Richard Posner.
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