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Title: The Economic Approach to Human Behavior by Gary Stanley Becker ISBN: 0-226-04112-3 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful
Comment: Gary Becker is one of the most brilliant economists of our time, especially when it come to applying economics principles to non traditional areas. For example, Becker provides a rationale for altruistic behavior emerging in society, and he studies crime from the the perspective of a market economy of criminal activity. The book is somewhat technical, so a somewhat quantitative background is recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: A milestone of new economic thought
Comment: This book is definitely a milestone of modern economic thought. It is one of the brightest signs of changing paradigm, from considering only those problems as 'economical' where prices and volumes could be estimated, to go beyond towards traditional areas of other sciences. Economics of family and of crime to name a few. Becker considers the decision making in these cases to show that it can be straight economical, the same as applied in a pricing or in a decision to produce. The judgement of Becker's 'economic imperialism', though, is a discussible point of view. To what extent economic reasoning can be applied is a matter of axioms underlying every economic theory. And these are not obvious but questionable instead. Therefore, it is my belief that this book should be read with a greater degree of criticism, just like any analysis of problems beyond 'traditional' scope of issues of economics.
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Title: The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affermative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life by Gary Stanley Becker, Guity Nashat Becker, Guity Nashat ISBN: 0070067090 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Social Economics : Market Behavior in a Social Environment by Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy ISBN: 067401121X Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 28 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Treatise on the Family (enlarged edition) by Gary Stanley Becker ISBN: 0674906993 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Essence of Becker (Hoover Institute Press Publication, 426.) by Gary Stanley Becker, Pedro Schwartz, Ramon Febrero ISBN: 0817993428 Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Economics of Discrimination by Gary Stanley Becker ISBN: 0226041166 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: August, 1971 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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