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In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

~George Stigler

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I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

~George Stigler

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: January 17th, 1911

Died: December 1st, 1991

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