Human Capital

First edition, first printing of Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Bound in publisher's original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. Recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, the National Medal of Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Becker was called by Milton Friedman the "greatest social scientist" of the later 20th century. Near Fine to fine with just normal age-toning. First printing. 6½" - 9¼".