__________ Gary S. Becker __________

Nobel Prize for Economic Science, 1992. University Professor of Economics and of Sociology, Department of Economics, University of Chicago. 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. Research Associate, Economics Research Center at the National Opinion Research Center, #. Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Main research focus: investment in human capital; population change and economic growth; influence of social forces on the economy; economics of the family; economics and politics.

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Becker, G.S. 1996. Accounting for Tastes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Becker, G.S./Becker, G.N. 1996. The Economics of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Becker, G.S./Murphy, K.M. 1988. A theory of rational addiction. Journal of Political Economy 96: 675—700.

Keywords: bounded rationality • economic imperialism • rational addiction.

Becker, G.S. 1986. The economic approach to human behavior. In Elster, Rational Choice, #—#.

Becker, G.S./Stigler, G.J. 1977. De gustibus non est disputandum. American Economic Review 67: 76—90.

Keywords: bounded rationality • taste.

Becker, G.S./Mulligan, C.B. 19##. The endogenous determination of time preference. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: 729—758. [abstract]

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