George Stigler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.”

“My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.”

“My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.”

“After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.”

“Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.”

“My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.”