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George Stigler has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…
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The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later…
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Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals…
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There is only one social science and we are its practitioners
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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory…
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My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the…
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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
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That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even…
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And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional…
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I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
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In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
— Edmund Burke
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I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade…
— David Cameron
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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things…
— Deepak Chopra
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Free trade should not mean free labor.
— Stephen F. Lynch
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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society…
— Thomas Szasz
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You don't need a treaty to have free trade.
— Murray Rothbard
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The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade…
— Unknown Author
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The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home…
— Milton Friedman
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I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain…
— Paul Romer
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…
— George Stigler
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
— Michael Parenti
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The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements…
— Danny Glover
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