The Economic Approach to Human Behavior - Gary S. Becker

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The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

By: Gary S. Becker

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Paperback | 15 September 1978 | Edition Number 1

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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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Non-Fiction Psychology Economics Economic Theory & Philosophy Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology

Introduction
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
Price and Prejudice
Effective Discrimination
Law and Politics
Competition and Democracy
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach
Time and Household Production
A Theory of the Allocation of Time
The Allocation of Time and Goods over Time
On the New Theory of Consumer Behavior (with Robert T. Michael)
Irrational Behavior
Irrational Behavior and Economic Theory
Marriage, Fertility, and the Family
An Economic Analysis of Fertility
On the interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children (with H. Gregg Lewis)
A Theory of Marriage
Social Interactions
A Theory of Social Interactions
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology
References
Index
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