Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment

by Gary S. Becker (Compiler)

268 pages. Economics & Sociology

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

American economist. He is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Booth School of Business. He has important contributions to the family economics branch within the economics. Neoclassical analysis of family within the family economics is also called new home economics . He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.He is currently a Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.