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My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. ↗

— George Stigler

#aroused #cliches #destroyed #director #discussions

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. ↗

— George Stigler

#appeal #became #become #economists #even

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

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#banks #education #focus #go #infrastructure

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

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#around #both #centered #change #distribution

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#american #american indians #asia #certain #collected

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#conducted #governments #infinite #monarchy #most

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#island #legislature #most #originally #perfect

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#bill #branch #constituents #every #his