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I met my wife, Margaret L. Ma...

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Henry Ford made a lot of mone...

Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Stigler's Law: No scientific ...

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Friedman stumbled in, late to...

Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

George Stigler 29 quotes

If you never miss a plane, yo...

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Theories are not rejected by ...

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

George Stigler 29 quotes

I recall my mother asking in ...

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Why, when the economist gives...

Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

George Stigler 29 quotes

...the number of saintly men ...

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

George Stigler 29 quotes

A Swedish physicist can not d...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

The main insight learned from...

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

George Stigler 29 quotes

I attended schools in Seattle...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Even before I came to Chicago...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

And yet I would not freely ex...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

The Chicago Economics Departm...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

My main graduate training was...

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

George Stigler 29 quotes

After the war, I returned to ...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Two years later, I went to th...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

That subject has lost its one...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

In the 1950s, I proposed the ...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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