Gary Becker

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks,…

— Gary Becker

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

— Gary Becker

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

— Gary Becker

Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and…

— Gary Becker

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

— Gary Becker

Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians…

— Gary Becker

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

— Gary Becker

I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration.…

— Gary Becker

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

— Gary Becker

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure…

— Gary Becker

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men…

— Gary Becker

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders…

— Gary Becker

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much…

— Gary Becker

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

— Gary Becker