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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 17 quotes by George Stigler George Stigler Born (1911-01-17)January 17, 1911 Seattle, Washington Died December 1, 1991(1991-12-01) (aged 80) Chicago, Illinois Nationality United States Institution Columbia University Brown University University of Chicago Iowa State University Field Economics School or tradition Chicago School of Economics Alma mater University of Washington (BA) Northwestern University (MBA) University of Chicago (PhD) Influences Frank Knight,... Read full biography of George Stigler → 1 2 Ctrl → I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern... → 0 In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical... → 0 The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later... → 0 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... → 0 I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. 0 I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. 0 In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained. 0 It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. 0 My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. 0 My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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