All George Stigler Quotes
- ...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. Answer
- 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… Advice
- The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had… Central
- Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest… Adam
- There is only one social science and we are its practitioners Inspirational
- Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield… Came
- 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… Aaron
- My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. Chicago
- 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… Abstract
- And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the… Confined
- I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. Inspirational
- In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained. Came
- I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. Chicago
- 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… Delivered
- 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. Attended
- A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his… Abroad
- All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. All
- It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. Began
- If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport. Airport
- My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. Began
- 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… Behavior
- Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas. Confused
- 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… Columbia
- After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained… Brown