George Stigler
George Stigler
George Joseph Stiglerwas a U.S. economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982, and was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics, along with Milton Friedman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth17 January 1911
CountryUnited States of America
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Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live
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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.
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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
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It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
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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.