Editing Gary Becker (section)

==Early life and education==
Becker was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{cite web<!--Citation bot --> | title = Gary Becker (1930–2014) | url = https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/becker.html | website = jewishvirtuallibrary.org | publisher = [[Jewish Virtual Library]] | access-date= March 29, 2015}}</ref> in [[Pottsville, Pennsylvania]]. He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from [[Princeton University]] in 1951, completing a senior thesis titled "The Theory of Multi-Country Trade".<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp019k41zf49k |title=The Theory of Multi-Country Trade |last=Becker |first=Gary Stanley}}</ref> He then earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1955 with a thesis entitled ''The Economics of Discrimination''.<ref>{{cite book | author = Gary Becker | title = The Economics of Discrimination | url = https://archive.org/details/economicsofdiscr0000beck | url-access = registration | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 1971 | isbn = 9780226041049}}</ref> At Chicago, Becker was influenced by [[Milton Friedman]], whom Becker called "by far the greatest living teacher I have ever had".<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Daniel B. Klein |author2=Ryan Daza | title = Ideological profiles of the economics laureates: Gary S. Becker | journal = Econ Journal Watch | volume = 100 | issue = 3 | pages = 285–291 | date = September 2013}}</ref> Becker credits Friedman's course on microeconomics for helping to renew his interest in economics. Becker also noted that during his time at Chicago, there were several other economists that greatly influenced his future work, namely [[H. Gregg Lewis|Gregg Lewis]], [[Theodore Schultz|T. W. Schultz]], [[Aaron Director]], and [[Leonard Jimmie Savage|L. J. Savage]].<ref name="nobelbio">{{cite web |author=Gary Becker |date=3 May 2014 |title=Gary S. Becker – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1992/becker-bio.html |publisher=Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences}}</ref>