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ISBN: 9780255366137 - Challenge of Immigration Challenge of Immigration
Diane Coyle, Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0255366132  ISBN13: 9780255366137
Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Apr 2011
Discusses the benefits and some of the problems arising from migration. This title proposes that immigrants should be charged to enter countries such as the USA and the UK, showing how it helps both migrants and the country they are entering... More

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ISBN: 9780226041025 - Uncommon Sense Uncommon Sense
Gary S Becker, Richard A Posner

ISBN10: 0226041026  ISBN13: 9780226041025
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Sep 2010
On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A Posner announced the formation of... More

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ISBN: 9780226041162 - The Economics of Discrimination The Economics of Discrimination
Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0226041166  ISBN13: 9780226041162
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Aug 1971
Examines the general effects of economic discrimination by employers, employees, consumers, and government. This second edition of Gary S. Becker's "The Economics of Discrimination" has been expanded to include three further discussions of the... More

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ISBN: 9780226041209 - Human Capital Human Capital
Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0226041204  ISBN13: 9780226041209
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1994
A study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. This edition has four new chapters, covering topics including: human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of... More

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ISBN: 9780674906990 - A Treatise on the Family A Treatise on the Family
Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0674906993  ISBN13: 9780674906990
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Expanded edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 1993
Gary Becker sees the 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. Gary Becker won the 1992 Nobel Prize in... More

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ISBN: 9780674543577 - Accounting for Tastes Accounting for Tastes
Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0674543572  ISBN13: 9780674543577
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Feb 1998
Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there's no accounting for tastes. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this lively new collection he confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how... More

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ISBN: 9780226041124 - The Economic Approach to Human Behaviour The Economic Approach to Human Behaviour
Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0226041123  ISBN13: 9780226041124
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Sep 1978
Part 1. Introduction1. The Economic Approach to Human BehaviorPart 2. Price and Prejudice2. Effective DiscriminationPart 3. Law and Politics3. Competition and Democracy4. Crime and Punishment: An Economic ApproachPart 4. Time and Household... More

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ISBN: 9780202309804 - Economic Theory Economic Theory
Gary S Becker

ISBN10: 0202309800  ISBN13: 9780202309804
Publisher: Transaction Publishers AldineTransaction
Edition: 2nd Enlarged edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Jan 2007
Dealing with the subject of microeconomics, this book argues that economic analysis is essential to understand much of the behavior traditionally studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. It places mathematical... More

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ISBN: 9780070067097 - Economics of Life Economics of Life
Gary S Becker, Guity Nashat Becker

ISBN10: 0070067090  ISBN13: 9780070067097
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition: New ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 1998
." . .the 1992 Nobel laureate demonstrates his well-known talent for extending ever further the frontiers of economics. . .in these pieces, the real world is very much at hand."--Business Week. "Becker goes tot he root of the problem. . . More

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ISBN: 9780674011212 - Social Economics Social Economics
Gary S Becker, Kevin M Murphy

ISBN10: 067401121X  ISBN13: 9780674011212
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Mar 2003
Economists assume that people make choices based on their preferences and their budget constraints. The preferences and values of others play no role in the standard economic model. This feature has been sharply criticized by other social... More