Gary S. Becker

Recipient
Year
Citation

Gary S.
Becker

University Professor of Economics & Sociology

University of Chicago
2000
People & Society

For his pioneering the economic analysis of racial discrimination, inventing the economics of human resources, producing the major modern innovations in economic demography and in economic criminology, and leading recent developments in how social forces shape individual economic behavior.

Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000.
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1992