Milton Friedman, George Stigler and Ed Schultz were very positive about it. The fact that they were positive enabled me to handle the neglect or the submissive aspects of it reasonably well. It was a major oversight the economists were in dealing with it. I can't say I was always happy about it when I saw people I thought my work would be much better off getting more recognition but patience is a virtue.
Russ Roberts interviews Gary Becker, of the University of Chicago, on the challenges of being an intellectual maverick, the economic approach to human behavior, the influences of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall on Becker's work and Becker's optimism for the future of economics.