39 Quotes by George Stigler

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.

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.

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

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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

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

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

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.