Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Gary Becker: Human Capital Theory

• Gary Becker (Wikipedia)
• Gary Becker (1981) "Altruism in the Family" in Economica, New Series, Vol. 48, No.189, pp. 1-15
• Becker lectures on Human Capital at Chicago Booth Business School, 2010
• Conversations with Gary Becker, 2010
• "Human Capital," Becker in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
• "The Challenge of Immigration: a Radical Solution," Becker at 2011 Hayek lecture
• "Nobel Laureate Gary Becker says Immigrants Should Pay," The Telegraph, 2010
• Fine, Ben. 1998. "the Triumph of Economics; Or 'Rationality' Can be Dangerous to Your Reasoning," in Carrier and Miller, eds., Virtualism: a New Political Economy. Oxford: Berg. [heterodox economist's critique of the work of Gary Becker].

 

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