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. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and… — 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
