Gary Becker’s Microeconomic Theory of Crime
Keywords:
incentives, rationality, crime, politics, justiceAbstract
This article presents some contributions from the Nobel Prize winner in economics Gary Becker (1992), who studied the economic incentives that can cause varying degrees of regulatory noncompliance. According to Becker (1971), whoever chooses criminal behaviors assigns, based on their opportunity costs, a differentiated price to each crime. This article presents some applications of microeconomics to a highly relevant social problem: crime.
References
Becker, G. (1962). Irrational Behavior and Economic Theory. Journal of Political Economy, 70(1), 1-13. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1827018.
Becker, G. (1965, 1 de septiembre). A Theory of the Allocation of Time. Economic Journal, 75(299), 493–517 https://doi.org/10.2307/2228949.
Becker, G. (1971). Economics of Discrimination. University of Chicago.
Becker, G. (2009). Human Capital. University of Chicago.
Criminalidad en Etiopía. (2021). NUMBEO. https://es.numbeo.com/criminalidad/pa%25C3%25ADs/Etiop%C3%ADa.
CCSCE – Center For Continuing Study of the California Economy. (2021). CCSCE. https://www.ccsce.com/Cal_Econ_Growth.php.
CountryProfile. (2021). World Development Indicators. https://databank.worldbank.org/views/reports/reportwidget.aspx?Report_Name=CountryProfile&Id=b450fd57&tbar=y&dd=y&inf=n&zm=n&country=ETH
Informes de Pobreza y Evaluación 2020. (2020). CONEVAL. https://www.coneval.org.mx/coordinacion/entidades/Paginas/Informes_Pobreza_Evaluacion_2020.aspx.
Statista. (2020, 5 noviembre). Tasa de crímenes violentos en EE. UU., por estado 2019. https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/634038/tasa-de-crimenes-violentos-en-ee-uu-por-estado/.
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Revista Digital Universitaria es editada por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México se distribuye bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional. Basada en una obra en http://revista.unam.mx/.
