1930s Quote by George Stigler

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

— Stephen Ambrose

If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I liked business studies and economics at school and it followed on from there.

— Chris Smalling

“when I arrived at Stanford in 1985, economics, not computer science, was the most popular major. To most people on campus, the tech sector…

— Peter Thiel

“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…

— Jonah Goldberg

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

— Herb Ritts

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

— George Nelson

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler