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BECKER, Gary Stanley was born in 1930 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
( This second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics o...)
This second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining. Mr. Becker's work confronts the economic effects of discrimination in the market place because of race, religion, sex, color, social class, personality, or other non-pecuniary considerations. He demonstrates that discrimination in the market place by any group reduces their own real incomes as well as those of the minority. The original edition of The Economics of Discrimination was warmly received by economists, sociologists, and psychologists alike for focusing the discerning eye of economic analysis upon a vital social problem—discrimination in the market place. "This is an unusual book; not only is it filled with ingenious theorizing but the implications of the theory are boldly confronted with facts. . . . The intimate relation of the theory and observation has resulted in a book of great vitality on a subject whose interest and importance are obvious."—M.W. Reder, American Economic Review "The author's solution to the problem of measuring the motive behind actual discrimination is something of a tour de force. . . . Sociologists in the field of race relations will wish to read this book."—Karl Schuessler, American Sociological Review
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(This book explores contemporary patterns of economic disc...)
This book explores contemporary patterns of economic discrimination faced by Dalits and religious minorities like Muslims, and the underlying attitudinal orientations that contribute to inequality in various spheres of life. It investigates empirical evidence of discrimination by focusing on the urban labour market as well as other markets in rural areas. It also analyses discrimination in non-market transactions like access to education, primary healthcare services, and fair price shops. Through detailed case studies, the essays examine the consequences of exclusion on unequal access to business, wage-earning, health status, and educational attainments and suggest possible remedies. The introduction provides a conceptual framework and the foreword by Kaushik Basu underscores the importance of developing an interface between economics and social sciences in order to give greater visibility to research on discrimination. This book will interest students and scholars of Dalit and subaltern studies, economics, sociology, and politics. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers and activists.
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(This second edition of Gary S. Becker's "The Economics of...)
This second edition of Gary S. Becker's "The Economics of Discrimination" has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining. Mr. Becker's work confronts the economic effects of discrimination in the market place because of race, religion, sex, color, social class, personality, or other non-pecuniary considerations. He demonstrates that discrimination in the market place by any group reduces their own real incomes as well as those of the minority. The original edition of "The Economics of Discrimination" was warmly received by economists, sociologists, and psychologists alike for focusing the discerning eye of economic analysis upon a vital social problem--discrimination in the market place. "This is an unusual book; not only is it filled with ingenious theorizing but the implications of the theory are boldly confronted with facts. . . . The intimate relation of the theory and observation has resulted in a book of great vitality on a subject whose interest and importance are obvious."--M.W. Reder, "American Economic Review" "The author's solution to the problem of measuring the motive behind actual discrimination is something of a "tour de force." . . . Sociologists in the field of race relations will wish to read this book."--Karl Schuessler, "American Sociological Review"
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( Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investme...)
Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was considered by the Nobel committee to be his most noteworthy contribution to economics. This expanded edition includes four new chapters, covering recent ideas about human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of labor, economic considerations within the family, and inequality in earnings. "Critics have charged that Mr. Becker's style of thinking reduces humans to economic entities. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Becker gives people credit for having the power to reason and seek out their own best destiny."—Wall Street Journal
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( Others might have called this book Micro Theory or Pric...)
Others might have called this book Micro Theory or Price Theory. Becker's choice of Economic Theory as the title for his book reflects his deep belief that there is only one kind of economic theory, not separate theories for micro problems, macro problems, non-market decisions, and so on. Indeed, as he notes, the most promising development in recent years in the literature on large scale economic problems such as unemployment has been the increasing reliance on utility maximization, a concept generally identified with microeconomics. Microeconomics is the subject matter of this volume, but it is emphatically not confined to microeconomics in the literal sense of micro units like firms or households. Becker's main interest is in market behavior of aggregations of firms and households. Although important inferences are drawn about individual firms and households, the author tries to understand aggregate responses to changes in basic economic parameters like tax rates, tariff schedules, technology, or antitrust provisions. His discussion is related to the market sector in industrialized economies, but the principles developed are applied to other sectors and different kinds of choices. Becker argues that economic analysis is essential to understand much of the behavior traditionally studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. The broad definition of economics in terms of scarce means and competing ends is taken seriously and should be a source of pride to economists since it provides insights into a wide variety of problems. Practically all statements proved mathematically are also provided geometrically or verbally in the body of the text.
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( Since his pioneering application of economic analysis t...)
Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this approach to various aspects of human activity, including social interactions; crime and punishment; marriage, fertility, and the family; and "irrational" behavior. "Becker's highly regarded work in economics is most notable in the imaginative application of 'the economic approach' to a surprising breadth of human activity. Becker's essays over the years have inevitably inspired a surge of research activity in testimony to the richness of his insights into human activities lying 'outside' the traditionally conceived economic markets. Perhaps no economist in our time has contributed more to expanding the area of interest to economists than Becker, and a number of these thought-provoking essays are collected in this book."—Choice Gary Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1992.
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(Imagine each family as a kind of little factory—a multipe...)
Imagine each family as a kind of little factory—a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. He uses the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets to analyze the allocation of time to child care as well as to careers, to marriage and divorce in polygynous as well as monogamous societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another. The consideration of the family from this perspective has profound theoretical and practical implications. For example, Becker's analysis of assortative mating can be used to study matching processes generally. Becker extends the powerful tools of economic analysis to problems once considered the province of the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the historian. The obligation of these scholars to take account of his work thus constitutes an important step in the unification of the social sciences. A Treatise on the Family will have an impact on public policy as well. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families. For example, social security taxes tend to reduce the amount of resources children give to their aged parents. The implications of these findings are obvious and far-reaching. With the publication of this extraordinary book, the family moves to the forefront of the research agenda in the social sciences.
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BECKER, Gary Stanley was born in 1930 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts Princeton University, 1951. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy University Chicago, 1953, 1955. Honorary Degrees, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1985, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1985.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University Chicago, 1954-1957. Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Professor of Economics, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics, Columbia University, 1957-1960,
1960-1968, 1968-1969. Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Economics, University Chicago, 1969-1970.
Professor Economics and Sociology, University Chicago, since 1970.
(This book explores contemporary patterns of economic disc...)
(Imagine each family as a kind of little factory—a multipe...)
( Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investme...)
( Since his pioneering application of economic analysis t...)
( Others might have called this book Micro Theory or Pric...)
( This second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics o...)
(This second edition of Gary S. Becker's "The Economics of...)
(Book by CARROLL THOMAS)
The first to provide a neoclassical analysis of discrimination in labour markets. Among the first to develop the implications of human capital theory. After analysing the allocation of time of economic agents, generalised the argument into the so-called ‘new economics of the family’, providing a standard explanation of such phenomena as marriage, divorce, the decision to have children, the decision to educate children, etc.
Quotations:
Gary Becker: My work on human capital got into issues of why different children have different opportunities. Some go on to college, some don't. Some drop out very early, some continue on, some are successful, some aren't. It seemed pretty clear to everybody who's thought about the problem, that it's something in the family that makes a difference. So I began to think about it more. I've taken it as given that these children are making these decisions, but I really want to trace it back some steps deeper, into what family they're in, and family choices.
Gary Becker: Crime is a worldwide issue now, that's one thing.
“When I was a student, I began to read. And when I was about -- again I made a conversion -- up until about 14, 15, I was more athletically oriented, played on a bunch of teams around and was a good student, but had no interest in really intellectual activities. And then, I can't really know why, I had a conversion, began to give up the sports and get more involved in reading. And starting at 16, 17, I read a lot then, at nighttime, going to the library. But as I say, we had no books, but I'd go to the library a lot. Philosophy, whatever kids at that age were interested in, I began to read. And so then I did read a lot, but the books we had, I had to get out of the library and so on. “