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

— George Stigler

#chairman #college #department #iowa #schultz

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

#challenge #challenges #chemist #citizens #competition

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. ↗

— Peter Straub

#buddies #contrary #despite #efforts #fear

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#arts #broad #college #committed #education

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#efficient #good #i #information #insight

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#capitalist #clearly #did #efficiency #exist

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ↗

— Sting

#american football #crash #football #helmets #i

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#devoid #different #differently #economic policy #fundamental

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#attempting #concerned #day #economic #every