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An Interview with Gary Becker

Jul 10, 2006
29:50
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
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2
How Did You Deal With the Neglect of Senior Economists?
04:19 • 2min
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3
The Economic Approach to Crime and Punishment
06:23 • 3min
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4
What Is a Market?
09:33 • 3min
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5
The Effects of the Sex Ratio on Marriages
12:29 • 3min
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6
Women in the Workforce - Women's Liberation
15:07 • 4min
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7
What's the Reception of Your Work in the Field of Rational Choice Sociology?
19:15 • 1min
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8
The Difference Between Political Science and Sociology
20:45 • 2min
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9
The Influence of Other Economists
22:34 • 4min
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10
Is There a Future in Economics?
26:50 • 3min
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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.

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