“The best way to reduce discrimination is to make it more costly.”

— Gary Becker

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About Gary Becker

Economist • American

Gary Stanley Becker was a pioneering American economist and a professor at the University of Chicago. He received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for extending the domain of microeconomic analysis to...

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