George Stigler Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous George Stigler quotes and sayings (economist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.”
“In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.”
“The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's 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.”
“The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.”
“A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.”
“And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.”
“Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.”
“I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.”
“I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.”
“In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.”
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