"That subject has lost its one time appeal……" — George Stigler
"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent."
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George Stigler
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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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Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior…
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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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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
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