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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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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
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And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to…
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I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers…
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Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a…
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After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University…
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I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and…
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