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Gary Becker, an Uncommon card
Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist, professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
- A 2011 survey of economics professors named Becker their favorite living economist over the age of 60, followed by Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow.
- Economist Justin Wolfers called him "the most important social scientist in the past 50 years." Becker was one of the first economists to analyze topics that had been researched in sociology, including racial discrimination, crime, family organization, and rational addiction.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gary Becker article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Gary Becker
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gary Becker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MAR, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
