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Gary S. Becker

Gary S. Becker

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Gary S. Becker, a Nobel laureate in Economics, was Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago.

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    Whereas France has its philosophes, and Britain its economists, Germany relies on its sociologists to make sense of the big picture. What, then, can they tell us about the unease afflicting contemporary Western societies as they navigate late modernity?

     reviews four books that shed much-needed light on widely shared crises of collective and individual identity.
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