Gary Becker

Prize Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 9, 1992

The Economic Way of Looking at Life

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1991-1995, Editor Torsten Persson, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997

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