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Capital Ideas is now Chicago Booth Review but unfortunately original articles are no longer available. If you click through you will be taken to the Internet Archive site to find an archived copy.
In the 1950s, few economists thought of phenomena such as racial discrimination as under their purview. That changed in 1957, when Gary S. Becker, Professor of Economics and of Sociology at the University of Chicago and at Chicago Booth before his death in 2014, published The Economics of Discrimination, a book based on his 1955 PhD thesis.
Becker’s analysis would extend the reach of economics, and completely reshape the field—and social-science research in general, but it took decades to do so.
Content: Article
Authors: Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy
Source: Capital Ideas
Subjects: Economics, History
Authors: Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy
Source: Capital Ideas
Subjects: Economics, History
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