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Gary Becker Oral History Interview with Claudia Goldin
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Gary Becker, who spent his career at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, was one of the founders of the modern field of labor economics. He applied economic analysis broadly to study human behavior. Becker was an active NBER researcher while at Columbia. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science.
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