It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
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… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
