Gary Becker (1930 – 2014) was an American economist who helped to
spread economics into fields of social science, such as sociology,
demography and criminology. Becker undertook economic analysis in areas
such as racial discrimination, the incentives of crime, drug addiction
and family relationships. Becker also helped to popularise and develop
the concept of human capital.Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Economics (1992) for “having extended the domain of microeconomic
analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including
nonmarket behaviour”