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 centralchicagoclose share on social
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. George Stigler 1960sbegindetail Change image and share on social
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. George Stigler chicagograduatemain Change image and share on social
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. George Stigler abstractappealeconomist share on social
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 columbiagroupleave Change image and share on social
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 confinediscussionexchange Change image and share on social
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 attendgraduatenorthwestern Change image and share on social
