The Father of Freakonomics
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Dr. Becker won almost every award there was to win in his profession -- including a Nobel Prize in economics and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush. Becker's book Human Capital (1964) is already as iconic as Adam Smith's writings on laissez faire.
By Natalie Pace, ContributorAuthor, 'The Gratitude Game,' 'The ABCs of Money' and 'You Vs...., 2014-11-03