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• ...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
• Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…
• The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later…
• Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals…
• There is only one social science and we are its practitioners
• Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory…
• My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the…
• My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even…
• And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional…
• I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
• In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

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