Wilfred Beckerman was born 19 May 1925, in London to Moishe and Mathilda Beckerman, poor Jewish immigrants from Poland a Ukraine. He was the second youngest of six children.[1][2]
In 1952, Beckerman married Nicole Ritter, who was raised Roman Catholic.[1] The couple had three children: Stephen, Sophia, and Deborah. Ritter died from breast cancer in 1979.[1][2]
In 1991, Beckerman married Joanna Pasek, becoming a step-father to her daughter, Agnieszka. The couple also had a daughter, Beatrice.[2]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1968). An Introduction to National Income Analysis. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN978-0-297-76154-9.
Beckerman, Wilfred (1974). In Defence of Economic Growth. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN978-0-224-00930-0.[5]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1975). Pricing for Pollution: an analysis of market pricing and government regulation in environment consumption and policy. Hobart papers. London: Inst. of Economic Affairs. ISBN978-0-255-36077-7.[6]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1975). Two Cheers for the Affluent Society: A Spirited Defense of Economic Growth. St. Martin's Press. ISBN978-0-312-82600-0.[7]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1978). Measures of Leisure, Equality and Welfare. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Paris: OECD. ISBN978-92-64-11766-2.[8]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1995). Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes: Essays by a Sceptical Optimist. Economists of the twentieth century. Aldershot: Elgar. ISBN978-1-85898-262-5.[9]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1995). Small Is Stupid: Blowing the Whistle on the Greens. London: Duckworth. ISBN978-0-7156-2640-5.[10]
Beckerman, Wilfred (1996). Through Green Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered. Washington, D.C: Cato Institute. ISBN978-1-882577-35-4.[11]
Beckerman, Wilfred (2003). A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth. Oakland, Calif: Independent Institute. ISBN978-0-945999-85-0.[12]
Beckerman, Wilfred; Pasek, Joanna (2004). Justice, Posterity, and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-924508-6.[13]
Beckerman, Wilfred (2011). Economics as Applied Ethics: Value Judgements in Welfare Economics. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978-0-230-27836-3. OCLC650213790.[14]
Beckerman, Wilfred (2017). Economics as Applied Ethics: Fact and Value in Economic Policy (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN978-3-319-50318-9.