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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. ↗

— George Stigler

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

— George Stigler

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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

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If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish! ↗

— Ryan Stiles

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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

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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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

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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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