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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

Topics: Abroad Citizens Discuss Economist Fellow Fellow Citizens Fifty Get Goes He His Instructions Language Native Opinions People Physicist Swedish Thousands Unless Work

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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

Topics: Behavior Challenge Challenges Chemist Citizens Competition Complex Cooperation Delicate Economic Economist Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Intricate Offers Pattern Perhaps Physicist Stockholm Thousands

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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

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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

Topics: Although Before Central Chicago Close Department Different Economics Encountered Had Influenced Intellectual Issues Later Me Minds Never Quality Quarters Strongly Those Times Very Were

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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

Topics: Abstract Appeal Became Become Economists Even Grown Intense Interest Lost More One Time Our Prominent Questions Raised Science Sociology Subject Time

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

~George Stigler

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

~George Stigler

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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

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

~George Stigler

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: January 17th, 1911

Died: December 1st, 1991

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