"Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he……" — George Stigler
"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 under conditions of competition."
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24 Quotes by George Stigler
George Stigler has 24 quotes on this site.
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...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks…
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach…
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The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those…
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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…
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My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects,…
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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…
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And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in…
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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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I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in…
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
— Kirk Cameron
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's…
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
— Herman Bavinck
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just…
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