"The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment,……" — George Stigler
"The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly."
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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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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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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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