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University of Chicago Professor Gary Becker is our kind of economist. Over his long and illustrious career, he has applied economic reasoning to an ever-expanding range of topics before other economists thought to do so: education, race and gender discrimination, crime, marriage and family, baseball, household production, suicide, altruism, fertility, addiction and habits—and our list is hardly complete.1 He has been a force within the profession to redefine economics not so much by the topics covered (money or markets or business), but as a way of thinking about human behavior. He has coauthored a book with a title that captures the expansive range of his analytics, The Economics of Life. 2
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McKenzie, R.B., Tullock, G. (2012). The Question of Queues. In: The New World of Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27364-3_17
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