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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

All great economists are tall....

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

George Stigler 29 quotes

If you never miss a plane, you...

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

George Stigler 29 quotes

It was in the 1960s that I beg...

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

George Stigler 29 quotes

My interests were aroused, and...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

The delicate and intricate pat...

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.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Mathematics has no symbols for...

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

George Stigler 29 quotes

...the number of saintly men h...

...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

Henry Ford made a lot of money...

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

...it is distressing how often...

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

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

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

I recall my mother asking in a...

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

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

The main insight learned from ...

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

George Stigler 29 quotes

Competition is a tough weed, n...

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

George Stigler 29 quotes

Stigler's Law: No scientific d...

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

George Stigler 29 quotes

My teaching began in 1936 at I...

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

George Stigler 29 quotes

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

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