Gary Becker

Economist

1930-12-02

Quotes by Gary Becker

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

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

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

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