Gary S. Becker
University Professor, Departments of Economics and Sociology
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-8168
email: gbecker@midway.uchicago.edu

Gary Becker attended Princeton University as an undergraduate and received a Masters and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He taught at Columbia University for twelve years before returning to Chicago as University Professor of Economics in 1970. He also became University Professor of Sociology in 1983, and the Graduate School of Business in 2001.

Among his publications are the books The Economics of Discrimination, Human Capital, Economic Theory, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior, A Treatise on the Family, Accounting For Tastes, The Economics of Life (with Guity Nashat), and Social Economics.

His research interests include price theory, human capital and the family, and the application of economic analysis to areas outside of traditional economics. Mr. Becker was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and the National Medal of Science in 2000.

Born: 1930.
Education: B.A., 1951, Princeton University; M.A., 1953, Ph.D., 1955, University of Chicago. Honorary Degrees: Doctor Philosophae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1985; Doctor of Laws, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1985; Doctor of Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988; Doctor of Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990; Doctor of Humane Letters, Princeton University, 1991; Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia, 1993; Doctor Philosophae Honoris Causa, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993; Doctoris Honoris Causa Scientarum Oeconomicarum, Warsaw School of Economics, 1995; Doctoris Honoris Causa, University of Economics, Prague, 1995; Doctor of Business Administration, University of Miami, 1995; Doctor of Science, University of Rochester, 1995; Doctor of Humane Letters, Hofstra University, 1997; Doctor of Humane Letters, University d'Aix-Marselles, 1999; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Athens, 2002; Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, 2003.