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• George Stigler:

  The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the h

• George Stigler:

  The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 19

• George Stigler:

  That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, bu

• George Stigler:

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

• George Stigler:

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

• George Stigler:

  My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with o

• George Stigler:

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

• George Stigler:

  In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and

• George Stigler:

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

• George Stigler:

  I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.