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George Stigler Quotes

American - Economist | January 17, 1911 - December 1, 1991

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

War Research Group University Leave

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

Challenge Competition Challenges

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

Quality Me Economics Intellectual

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

Science Time Questions Lost Become

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

College Where Teaching Iowa State T

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Training Chicago University Main

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

Friend Faith Director Destroyed

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

Study Regulation Began Public 1960s

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Price Survivor 1950s Integration

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

Chicago Where I Came Came Remained

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

Price Theory Started Working

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

Wife Chicago She University Married

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