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George Stigler
American Economist
Born: Jan 17, 1911
Died: Dec 1, 1991
Before Came Chicago Discussions War Year
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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
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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
War Research Group Later Several Member Statistical Minnesota Columbia Columbia University Leave Years Which Two University
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
Challenges Competition Behavior Challenge Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Complex Intricate Citizens Thousands Delicate Economic Physicist Economist Perhaps Chemist Stockholm Offers Pattern Cooperation
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. George Stigler
Training Main Chicago Graduate Which Received University
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
Faith Director Other Destroyed My Friend Cliches Aroused Were Subject Subjects Friend Discussions Often Interests
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. George Stigler
Year Spent Through Attended Schools Graduated Northwestern Which Next Next Year Washington Seattle University
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
War Year Later Minnesota Brown Remained Columbia Columbia University Soon Until Returned Year Later Moved Where After Which University
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
Work People Language Unless Citizens Thousands Abroad Physicist He Economist Instructions Fellow Fellow Citizens Opinions His Discuss Get Goes Native Fifty Swedish

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