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George Stigler
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American economist (1911–1991)
George Stigler was an American economist who made important contributions to understanding how markets work and how businesses compete, earning the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982. His ideas shaped modern thinking about regulation, competition, and the way information flows through economies, influencing both academic economics and real-world policy decisions.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911
- Works
- 51
Top works
- The theory of competitive price
- L'economista e l'intellettuale
- Economics or ethics?
- The Adam Smith lectures
- Laissez faire l'etat
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- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,968x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,676x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,968x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,720x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,217x
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Quotes
- “A rational man must be guided by the incentive system within which he operates. No matter what his own personal desires, he must be discouraged from certain activities if they carry penalties and attracted toward others if they carry large rewards. The carrot and the stick guide scientists and politicians as well as donkeys.”
- “Whether one is a conservative or a radical, a protectionist or a free trader, a cosmopolitan or a nationalist, a churchman or a heathen, it is useful to know the causes and consequences of economic phenomena.”
- “Economists are neither distinctively good nor bad, no more or less virtuous or brave or generous or faithful than the sum of mankind, and certainly no more modest.”
- “Footnotes are not an occasional token of respect for an obsolete and purposeless tradition. It will come as a shock to many, I am sure, even to realize that references can be checked.”
- “The user of a theory has a simpler task: his not to reason why, his but to sigh and try. If the right element in the diverse situations has been isolated, the theory will work: it will yield predictions better than those which can be reached with any alternative theory.”
- “The essence of scientific progress is to edge up this ladder from ignorance to knowledge, and it is complicated by the fact that the ladder keeps getting longer!”
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1982
“for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation”
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Encyclopedic overview
George Joseph Stigler (/ˈstɪɡlər/; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics.
Early life and education
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