The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times.…

- George Stigler

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

- George Stigler

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

- George Stigler

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursu…

- George Stigler

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

- George Stigler

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yie…

- George Stigler

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

- George Stigler

Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway thro…

- George Stigler

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 t…

- George Stigler