The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization George Stigler More Quotes by George Stigler More Quotes From George Stigler 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 next-yearyearsschool 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 competitioncitizenschallenges I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. George Stigler publishingtheory I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. George Stigler marriedwifechicago In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. George Stigler topicssizesurvivor 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. in 1938. George Stigler graduatestrainingchicago Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits. George Stigler carmoneymoving 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 small-numbersforeverscience 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 groupuniversityresearchwar 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 yearwhereuniversitywar
