Quotes About George Stigler

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.

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

But when Stigler was put in front of the TV cameras, lights blazing, and asked about supply-side economics, the iconoclastic economist opined that "it's a gimmick, or, if you wish, a slogan." Ouch. That didn't help Ronald Reagan. I presume it didn't help George Stigler either, who was quickly hustled off stage.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.