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It is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

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

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

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

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

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

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

If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

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