The Essence of Becker

This collection of his most important essays "reprints...Becker's personal overview, comprising his Nobel Lecture on the economic way of looking at behavior."

About the author

Ramón Febrero is a professor of economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and director of the Economics and Business Administration Division of the Centro de Estudios Superiores "Ramón Carande". Pedro S. Schwartz is a professor of the history of economic thought at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a special consultant at National Economic Research Association.

Summary

Presents twenty-six essays that showcase the brilliant originality and range of economic thought that earned Hoover Institution senior fellow Gary S. Becker the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Stanley Becker, Ramon Febrero, Pedro S Schwartz, Pedro S. Schwartz
• Assisted by: Ramon Febrero (Editor), Pedro Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1995
• EAN: 9780817993429
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-9342-9
• No. of pages: 726
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 946 g
• Series: Hoover Institution Press Publi; Hoover Institution Press Publi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics