Editing Gary Becker (section)

== Career ==
For a few years, Becker worked as an assistant professor at Chicago and conducted research there.<ref name="nobelbio" /> Before turning 30, he moved to teach at [[Columbia University]] in 1957 while also conducting research at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]. In 1970 Becker returned to the University of Chicago, and in 1983 was offered a joint appointment by the Sociology Department of Chicago.<ref name="nobelbio" /> In 1965 he was elected as a [[Fellow of the American Statistical Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm|title=View/Search Fellows of the ASA|access-date=August 20, 2016|archive-date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Becker was a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. Becker won the [[John Bates Clark Medal]] in 1967. He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1972,<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web |title= Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B| url= http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf | publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}</ref> a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1975,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gary S. Becker |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/57881.html |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> and a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Gary+Becker&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> Becker was a member, and later the president of, the [[Mont Pelerin Society]].<ref name="membership2010">{{cite web|title= Mont Pelerin Society Directory|url= http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Mont%20Pelerin%20Society%20Directory%202010.pdf|publisher= DeSmogBlog|access-date= September 10, 2014|archive-date= September 23, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923214739/http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Mont%20Pelerin%20Society%20Directory%202010.pdf|url-status= dead}}</ref> Becker received the Nobel Prize in 1992 "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including nonmarket behavior".<ref>{{cite web | last = Staff writer | title = Gary S. Becker – Facts | url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1992/becker-facts.html | website = nobelprize.org | publisher = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Media AB]] | date = June 6, 2006}}</ref> Becker also received the [[National Medal of Science]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web | title=Home page | url=http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker | publisher=University of Chicago | access-date=December 11, 2004 | archive-date=April 16, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416033101/http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker/ | url-status=dead}}</ref> Becker received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 2001, presented by Awards Council member and Nobel Prize laureate [[Leon M. Lederman]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2001 |title= Jeffrey P. Bezos Biography Photo | url= https://achievement.org/achiever/jeffrey-p-bezos/ |quote= Seated from left to right: Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, nautical archaeologist Dr. George Bass, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics Gary S. Becker, CEO of Hearst Corporation Frank A. Bennack, Jr., CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, and director of the National Gallery of Art J. Carter Brown at the honoree reception prior to the Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies during the American Academy of Achievement's 2001 Summit held in San Antonio.}}</ref> Becker's work has over 200,000 citations on Google Scholar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Becker |first=Gary |date=March 20, 2025 |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=gary+becker&btnG= }}</ref>

A political [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]],<ref name="Teles2012">{{citation | author = Steven M. Teles | title = The rise of the conservative legal movement: the battle for control of the law | page = 98 | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781400829699}}</ref> he wrote a monthly column for ''[[Business Week]]'' from  1985 to 2004, alternating with liberal Princeton economist [[Alan Blinder]]. In 1996 Becker was a senior adviser to Republican presidential candidate [[Robert Dole]].<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |author =Robert D. Hershey Jr. |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/business/economy/gary-s-becker-83-nobel-winner-who-applied-economics-to-everyday-life-dies.html |title= Gary S. Becker, 83, Nobel Winner Who Applied Economics to Everyday Life, Dies |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date= 4 May 2014}}</ref> In December 2004, Becker started a joint weblog with Judge [[Richard Posner]] entitled ''The Becker-Posner Blog''.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Becker-Posner Blog | url = http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/beckerposner | publisher = University of Chicago Law School}}</ref>