The latter theory of household production owes to the work of economics Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, particularly his 1965 Economic Journal article.
Gary Becker (1976) was the first theorist to define human behavior in terms of economics; there are four main assumptions to his definition.
The main protagonists of the WSS 2008 Edition are : the sociologists Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman, the economist Jacques Attali, the economist and Nobel laureate Gary Becker, the psychologist James Hillman, the journalist Bill Emmot, the architect Massimiliano Fuksas, the scientist Edoardo Boncinelli, the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, the writer Suketu Mehta.
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It hosts numerous conferences each year and has attracted high-level speakers, including Robert Barro, George Borjas, Nobel Laureate Edward Prescott, Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, Sir Nigel Lawson and many others.
Key works in the cultural economics as such were those of Baumol and Bowen (Performing Arts, The Economic Dilemma, 1966), of Gary Becker on addictive goods, and of Alan Peacock (Public Choice).
The original advisory board included Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer, the founders of the Columbia School of Household Economics often called the New Home Economics, as well as another Nobel prize winner, Clive Granger.
TIR has been praised by many economists, political scientists, and public policy wonks including Gary Becker, Julian Simon, David Frum, and William Niskanen.