"There is only one social science and we……" — George Stigler

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— George Stigler

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24 Quotes by George Stigler

George Stigler has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks…
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach…
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those…
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior…
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which…
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects,…
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest…
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in…
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in…

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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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