US ECONOMIST Gary Becker, one of the 20th century’s most influential economists, died on Saturday at the age of 83. Becker, who picked up the Nobel prize in economics two decades ago, pioneered a ...

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(AP) Gary Becker, a University of Chicago economics and sociology professor who received the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 1992, has died at age 83. Becker’s stepson, Mike Claffey, said Becker ...