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According to Wikipedia, George Joseph Stigler 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 Stigler was born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Elsie Elizabeth and Joseph Stigler. He was of German descent and spoke German in his childhood. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1931 with a BA and then spent a year at Northwestern University from which he obtained his MBA in 1932. It was during his studies at Northwestern that Stigler developed an interest in economics and decided on an academic career.

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Foundations of Economic Analysis. (1948) (4665)
The Economics of Information (1961) (4089)
The Organization of Industry (1969) (2170)
A Theory of Oligopoly (1964) (1942)
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers (1974) (1741)
The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market (1951) (1647)
The Theory of Price (1948) (1113)
The Optimum Enforcement of Laws (1970) (1101)
Information in the Labor Market (1962) (1041)
Public Regulation of the Securities Markets (1964) (684)
The Development of Utility Theory. I (1950) (586)
What Can Regulators Regulate? The Case of Electricity (1962) (518)
The Extent of the Market (1985) (507)
Production and Distribution in the Short Run (1939) (474)
The Economies of Scale (1958) (457)
Perfect Competition, Historically Contemplated (1957) (444)
Economic competition and political competition (1972) (434)
General Economic Conditions and National Elections (1973) (390)
Director's Law of Public Income Redistribution (1970) (385)
The Xistence of X-Efficiency (1976) (351)
Free Riders and Collective Action: An Appendix to Theories of Economic Regulation (1974) (338)
United States v. Loew's Inc.: A Note on Block-Booking (1963) (333)
The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation (1976) (317)
The Cost of Subsistence (1945) (285)
The Tenable Range of Functions of Local Government (1957) (277)
The Behavior of Industrial Prices (1971) (270)
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist (1985) (262)
An Introduction to Privacy in Economics and Politics (1980) (262)
The Economic Theory of Regulation (1971) (262)
Capital and Rates of Return in Manufacturing Industries. (1964) (252)
Capital and Rates of Return in Manufacturing Industries. (1964) (252)
The Early History of Empirical Studies of Consumer Behavior (1954) (228)
Essays in the History of Economics (1965) (216)
Law or Economics? (1992) (201)
The Journals of Economics (1995) (191)
The Kinky Oligopoly Demand Curve and Rigid Prices (1947) (181)
Smith's Travels on the Ship of State (1971) (174)
Economics-The Imperial Science? (1984) (163)
Price and Non-Price Competition (1968) (148)
Imperfections in the Capital Market (1967) (148)
The Successes and Failures of Professor Smith (1976) (147)
The Citation Practices of Doctorates in Economics (1975) (137)
The Literature of Economics: The Case of Berle and Means (1983) (133)
The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel. (1958) (131)
Chicago studies in political economy (1988) (129)
The Economists and the Problem of Monopoly (1982) (122)
The Politics of Political Economists (1959) (109)
The Economic Effects of the Antitrust Laws (1966) (109)
Production and Distribution Theories (1994) (108)
Does Economics Have a Useful Past (1969) (107)
The Economist As Preacher, And Other Essays (1982) (106)
The Sizes of Legislatures (1976) (104)
Notes on the History of the Giffen Paradox (1947) (100)
The Statistics of Monopoly and Merger (1956) (99)
The Ricardian Theory of Value and Distribution (1952) (91)
Production and Distribution Theories, the Formative Period. (1941) (88)
The Development of Utility Theory. II (1950) (87)
The Law and Economics of Public Policy: A Plea to the Scholars (1972) (84)
The Economist as Preacher (1983) (82)
Trends in Output and Employment (1948) (81)
The Case, If Any, for Economic Literacy. (1970) (78)
Business Concentration and Price Policy (1955) (76)
Nobel Lecture: The Process and Progress of Economics (1983) (75)
Trends in Employment in the Service Industries. (1957) (74)
Two Notes on the Coase Theorem (1989) (71)
The Theory of Competitive Price. (1943) (70)
Do Economists Matter (1976) (68)
Five Lectures on Economic Problems. (1950) (65)
The Origin of the Sherman Act (1985) (64)
Notes on the Theory of Duopoly (1940) (64)
Textual Exegesis as a Scientific Problem (1965) (63)
The Adoption of the Marginal Utility Theory (1972) (61)
The Nature and Role of Originality in Scientific Progress (1955) (61)
The Pattern of Citation Practices in Economics (1979) (58)
THE LITERATURE OF ECONOMICS: THE CASE OF THE KINKED OLIGOPOLY DEMAND CURVE (1978) (57)
Monopolistic Competition in Retrospect (1972) (51)
HENRY L. MOORE AND STATISTICAL ECONOMICS (1962) (50)
The Process and Progress of Economics (1982) (50)
The Dominant Firm and the Inverted Umbrella (1965) (49)
Economic Problems in Measuring Changes in Productivity (1961) (47)
Alfred Marshall's Lectures on Progress and Poverty (1969) (38)
Administered Prices and Oligopolistic Inflation (1962) (38)
Industrial Prices, as Administered by Dr. Means (1973) (37)
The Economics of Carl Menger (1937) (37)
Selected Papers on Economic Theory (1960) (33)
Employment and Compensation in Education. (1950) (31)
Profits of Defense Contractors (1971) (31)
The American Cigarette Industry (1951) (29)
The Limitations of Statistical Demand Curves (1939) (28)
The intellectual and the marketplace (1962) (27)
Henry Calvert Simons (1974) (26)
The Malthusian Controversy. (1952) (21)
Wealth, and Possibly Liberty (1978) (21)
On the "Chicago School of Economics": Comment (1962) (21)
The Conference Handbook (1977) (20)
The Essence of Stigler (1986) (18)
Mergers and Preventive Antitrust Policy (1955) (18)
Front matter to "Domestic Servants in the United States, 1900-1940" (1946) (17)
Labor and Capital (1882) (17)
Trends in Employment (1947) (17)
The Scientific Uses of Scientific Biography, with Special Reference to J. S. Mill (1976) (17)
The Kinked Demand Curve Analysis of Oligopoly. (1982) (17)
Archibald versus Chicago (1963) (16)
The Goals of Economic Policy (1975) (16)
Selections from The wealth of nations (1957) (15)
[Professor Stigler Revisited]: Comment (1964) (15)
ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND SIZE OF PLANT: THE EVIDENCE AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1974) (15)
A Generalization of the Theory of Imperfect Competition (1937) (15)
MERTON ON MULTIPLES, DENIED AND AFFIRMED (1980) (15)
The intellectual and the market place and other essays (1963) (15)
Production and distribution theories : the formative period (1942) (14)
Palgrave's Dictionary of Economics (1988) (14)
Charles Babbage (1791 + 200 = 1991) (1991) (13)
The Economics of Conflict of Interest (1967) (13)
The Business Services (1956) (13)
Five lectures on economic problems : five lectures delivered at the London School of Economics and Political Science on the invitation of the Senate of the University of London (1949) (13)
Marshall's Principles After Guillebaud (1962) (13)
Notes on the History of the Giffen Paradox: A Reply (1948) (13)
Five Lectures on Economic Problems (1950) (13)
The Effects of Economic Policies on Votes for the Presidency: Some Evidence from Recent Elections: Comment (1975) (12)
Appendices to "Domestic Servants in the United States, 1900-1940" (1946) (12)
A Historical Preface (1956) (11)
Can regulatory agencies protect consumers (1971) (10)
A Sketch of the History of Truth in Teaching (1973) (10)
Front matter, The Behavior of Industrial Prices (1970) (9)
Frank Knight as Teacher (1973) (9)
Social Welfare and Differential Prices (1938) (8)
PRODUCTION TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES (1970) (8)
Trends in Employment in the Service Industries. A Study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. (1958) (8)
Private Vice and Public Virtue (1961) (8)
A Survey of Contemporary Economics (1949) (7)
The Pleasures and Pains of Modern Capitalism (1996) (7)
Trends in Output (1947) (6)
Report of the Task Force on Productivity and Competition (1969) (6)
Stuart Wood and the Marginal Productivity Theory (1947) (6)
The Ethics of Competition: The Friendly Economists (1980) (6)
An Academic Episode (1947) (6)
A. E. A. Readings in Price Theory (1953) (5)
Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis (1954) (5)
Competition and the Rate of Return (1963) (5)
Sraffian Economics (new Developments) (5)
RICARDO OR HOLLANDER (1990) (5)
Specialism: A Dissenting Opinion (1951) (5)
Frank Hyneman Knight (1985) (5)
Introduction to "Business Concentration and Price Policy" (1955) (4)
Alfred Marshall: Critical Assessments. John Cunningham Wood (1983) (4)
Number 15 (1984) (4)
The Ethics of Competition: The Unfriendly Critics (1980) (4)
Principles of Political Economy. John Stuart Mill (1966) (4)
The Amount of Information That Economic (3)
Ricardo or Hollander? [Ricardian Growth Theory: A Resolution of Some Problems in Textual Interpretation] (1990) (3)
Chronicles of Economics Birthday Book (1990) (3)
The Process of Economic Regulation (1972) (3)
Adam Smith and Public Choice: A Reply to Anderson (1989) (3)
The Dispersion of Price Movements (1970) (3)
Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons. Volume VII: Papers on Political Economy. (1983) (3)
11. Stigler's Law of Demand and Supply Elasticities (1984) (3)
Book Review:A Revision of Demand Theory J. R. Hicks (1957) (3)
Labor Productivity and Size of Farm: A Statistical Pitfall (1946) (2)
Determinants of Participation in Presidential Elections: Comment (1975) (2)
Marshall on Market Price (1992) (2)
Competition and Concentration (1964) (2)
15. Elementary Economic Education (1984) (2)
Front matter to "The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel" (1957) (2)
Rent Control and the Housing Shortage: A Commentary on "Roofs or Ceilings?" by Friedman and Stigler (1947) (2)
High-Talent Manpower for Science and Industry (1958) (2)
The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel: Comment (1958) (2)
Book Review:The Economics of the International Patent System Edith Tilton Penrose (1952) (1)
Book Review:The Travel Diaries of T. R. Malthus Patricia James (1967) (1)
Engagement calendar 1985 great economists (1985) (1)
The Politics of Political Economists: Reply (1960) (1)
Opportunity Cost of Marriage: Comment (1969) (1)
A Historical Note on the Short Run: Marshall and Friedman (1981) (1)
5. Stigler's First Law of Sympathy (1984) (1)
Book Review:The Economics of Price Determination C. Clive Saxton (1944) (1)
Events, Ideology & Economic Theory: The Determinants of Progress in the Development of Economic Analysis. Edited by Robert V. Eagly. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968. Pp. 207. $8.50 (1969) (1)
Tools of persuasion: the conseguences of economic rhetoric. (1989) (1)
12. On Scientific Writing (1984) (1)
The Classification and Characteristics of Service Industries (1956) (1)
Divergence between Plant and Company Concentration, 1947. (1951) (1)
Factors in the Trend of Employment in the Service Industries (1956) (1)
The Emergence of "the" Problem of Industrial Prices (1970) (1)
The Control of Competition in Canada, Lloyd G. Reynolds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1940. Pp. xiv+324. $3.50 (1940) (0)
The Price Data: Procedures, Characteristics, and Limitations (1970) (0)
14. The Alarming Cost of Model Changes: A Case Study (1984) (0)
Book Review:Wage Determination Under Trade Unions John T. Dunlop (1944) (0)
The Supply of Engineers (1957) (0)
Appendix B: Census Data on Number of Engineers and Chemists, 1890-1950 (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Laws of Human Relations Herman H. Gossen (1984) (0)
Routine Personal Services (1956) (0)
Economic Philosophy. Joan Robinson (1963) (0)
9. Meager Means and Noble Ends (1984) (0)
Elements of Economics.@@@An Introduction to Modern Economics.@@@The Theory of Price.@@@The Theory of Competitive Price.@@@History of Economic Doctrines: An Introduction to Economic Theory.@@@Beyond Supply and Demand: A Re-appraisal of Institutional Economics. (1948) (0)
Front matter for Trends in Employment in the Service Industries (1956) (0)
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS (1991) (0)
Entrepreneur[i]al Costs and Price: A Reconsideration of Competitive and Monopolistic Market Theory. George Johnson Cady (1943) (0)
Back Matter (1967) (0)
Trends in Employment in the Service Industries, 1870-1950 (1958) (0)
Appendix G: Analysis of Rates of Transfer out of the Engineering Profession for Engineers with Varying Years of Experience (1957) (0)
Front matter, "Capital and Rates of Return in Manufacturing Industries" including Preface (1963) (0)
Factors Affecting the Income of Servants (1946) (0)
Galbraith's TV marathon (1977) (0)
The Growth of the Service Industries (1956) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel (1970) (0)
Outlay and Income in the United States, 1921–1938, Harold Barger, New York, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1942. Pp. xxvii, 388. $2.50 (1943) (0)
Appendix C: Prices of Individual Commodities and Commodity Groups (1970) (0)
Book Review:Investment, Location, and Size of Plant P. Sargent Florence, W. Baldamus (1948) (0)
Index to "Trends in Output and Employment" (1947) (0)
The Rate of Investment (1963) (0)
13. How to Pass Examinations in Economics (1984) (0)
Trends in Output per Worker (1947) (0)
Supply and Demand for Mathemeticians and Physicists (1957) (0)
Appendix F: Tables on Years of School Completed for Engineers, 1940, and Age and Years of School Completed for Engineers and Scientists, 1950 (1957) (0)
The Future of Higher Education: An EconomicPerspective (1989) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel . By David M. Blank and George J. Stigler. National Bureau of Economic Research, General Series, no. 62. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 1957. Pp. xx, 200. $4.00. (1958) (0)
The Economics of Peace. Kenneth E. Boulding (1946) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
A Preview of the General Findings (1947) (0)
Appendix A: Engineering Earnings (1957) (0)
Mathematics in Economics: Further Comment (1955) (0)
Think. A Biography of the Watsons and IBM. William Rodgers. Stein and Day, New York, 1969. 320 pp. + plates. $7.95 (1969) (0)
Appendix E: Reconciliation of 1940 and 1950 Census Counts of Engineers (1957) (0)
Book Review:Small and Big Business: Economic Problems of the Size of Firms Joseph Steindl (1947) (0)
The Characteristics of Servants (1946) (0)
Book reviews (1978) (0)
Appendix A: Transcriptional Editing of Raw Data (1970) (0)
Book Review:Fiscal Planning for Total War William Leonard Crum, John F. Fennelly, Lawrence Howard Seltzer (1943) (0)
Babbage on Monopoly Price (1979) (0)
Staff Reports: Wages, Employment, and Productivity (1956) (0)
Appendix I: Advertisements for Engineers (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Logic of British and American Industry P. Sargant Florence (1955) (0)
John Rae: Political Economist. R. Warren James (1965) (0)
Discussion: Inflation and Government Policies (1957) (0)
Absurd Culprits: Professors Suppressing Freedom?. (1973) (0)
Elements of Modern Economics. Albert MeyersIntroduction to Economic Analysis. Archibald Mac Donald McIssac, James Gerald Smith (1939) (0)
Appendix B: The Construction of the NBER Index Numbers (1970) (0)
Programs for Using Agricultural Surpluses to Reduce Malnutrition and to Benefit Farmers: Discussion by George J. Stigler (1940) (0)
Ricardian Economics: A Historical Study. Mark Blaug (1959) (0)
Factors Influencing the Demand for Engineers and Chemists (1957) (0)
Appendix C: Tables on Engineering Enrollments and Degrees (1957) (0)
Comparison of Indexes for Individual Commodities (1970) (0)
10. Freedom in the Academy (1984) (0)
Book reviews (1986) (0)
Front matter to "Trends in Output and Employment" (1947) (0)
Appendices to "Employment and Compensation in Education" (1950) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
3. The National Commission as an Instrument of Controlled Impartiality (1984) (0)
Book Review:The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, W. B. Todd (1977) (0)
Introduction to "Trends in Output and Employment" (1947) (0)
Appendix H: The Engineers Joint Council Surveys (1957) (0)
Front matter, preface, tables of content (1950) (0)
I The policy of American Universities towards divestment in South Africa (1986) (0)
A General View of the Technological Professions (1957) (0)
The Professional Service Industries (1956) (0)
Determinants of a Manpower Supply: The Doctor Shortage . An Economic Diagnosis. Rashi Fein. Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1967. 211 pp., illus. $6. Studies in Social Economics. (1967) (0)
History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow (1984) (0)
[Administered Prices and Oligopolistic Inflation]: Comment (1964) (0)
Tax on the Six-Cylinder Car (1989) (0)
The Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation: Its Organization and Recommendations: Discussion (1972) (0)
The functions and resources of the american-university of the 21st-century-comments (1992) (0)
The Number of Servants, 1900-1940 (1946) (0)
Indexes for Commodity Groups and for All Commodities Included (1970) (0)
Appendix D: Prices in Specfic Cycles (1970) (0)
The Doctor Shortage. An Economic Diagnosis. Rashi Fein. Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1967. 211 pp., illus. $6. Studies in Social Economics (1967) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
Elementary and Secondary Education (1950) (0)
The Wages and Hours of Servants (1946) (0)
Social Science: Identifying Major Advances (1971) (0)
The Nature of the Price Indexes (1970) (0)
The Flow of Investment and the Pattern of Rates of Return (1963) (0)
Appendix D: Projections of the Number of Engineering Degrees to 1970 (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Hard-Surface Floor-Covering Industry Robert F. Lanzillotti (1956) (0)
Appendix E: Antitrust Cases (1970) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Domestic Servants in the United States, 1900-1940 Volume Author/Editor: (1970) (0)
Demand and Supply: Methods of Analysis (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Dynamic Economy Harold G. Moulton, Frank Palmer (1951) (0)
Prometheus Incorporated: Conformity or Coercion? (1960) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Trends in Output and Employment Volume Author/Editor: (1970) (0)
Economic Analysis. Kenneth E. Boulding (1941) (0)

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