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PhD Economics University of Chicago

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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 B.A. 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) (4686)
The Economics of Information (1961) (4128)
The Organization of Industry (1969) (2176)
A Theory of Oligopoly (1964) (1957)
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers (1974) (1759)
The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market (1951) (1654)
The Theory of Price (1948) (1122)
The Optimum Enforcement of Laws (1970) (1110)
Information in the Labor Market (1962) (1055)
Public Regulation of the Securities Markets (1964) (689)
The Development of Utility Theory. I (1950) (597)
What Can Regulators Regulate? The Case of Electricity (1962) (522)
The Extent of the Market (1985) (512)
Production and Distribution in the Short Run (1939) (476)
The Economies of Scale (1958) (463)
Perfect Competition, Historically Contemplated (1957) (453)
Economic competition and political competition (1972) (439)
General Economic Conditions and National Elections (1973) (392)
Director's Law of Public Income Redistribution (1970) (388)
The Xistence of X-Efficiency (1976) (355)
Free Riders and Collective Action: An Appendix to Theories of Economic Regulation (1974) (339)
United States v. Loew's Inc.: A Note on Block-Booking (1963) (336)
The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation (1976) (317)
The Cost of Subsistence (1945) (289)
The Tenable Range of Functions of Local Government (1957) (280)
The Behavior of Industrial Prices (1971) (269)
An Introduction to Privacy in Economics and Politics (1980) (266)
The Economic Theory of Regulation (1971) (264)
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist (1985) (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) (231)
Essays in the History of Economics (1965) (218)
Law or Economics? (1992) (204)
The Journals of Economics (1995) (193)
The Kinky Oligopoly Demand Curve and Rigid Prices (1947) (180)
Smith's Travels on the Ship of State (1971) (177)
Economics-The Imperial Science? (1984) (164)
Price and Non-Price Competition (1968) (151)
Imperfections in the Capital Market (1967) (150)
The Successes and Failures of Professor Smith (1976) (148)
The Citation Practices of Doctorates in Economics (1975) (137)
The Literature of Economics: The Case of Berle and Means (1983) (135)
The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel. (1958) (134)
Chicago studies in political economy (1988) (129)
The Economists and the Problem of Monopoly (1982) (123)
Production and Distribution Theories (1994) (109)
The Politics of Political Economists (1959) (109)
The Economic Effects of the Antitrust Laws (1966) (109)
Does Economics Have a Useful Past (1969) (108)
The Economist As Preacher, And Other Essays (1982) (106)
The Sizes of Legislatures (1976) (105)
Notes on the History of the Giffen Paradox (1947) (100)
The Statistics of Monopoly and Merger (1956) (99)
The Development of Utility Theory. II (1950) (91)
The Ricardian Theory of Value and Distribution (1952) (91)
Production and Distribution Theories, the Formative Period. (1941) (89)
Trends in Output and Employment (1948) (84)
The Law and Economics of Public Policy: A Plea to the Scholars (1972) (84)
The Economist as Preacher (1983) (82)
The Case, If Any, for Economic Literacy. (1970) (78)
Trends in Employment in the Service Industries. (1957) (77)
Business Concentration and Price Policy (1955) (76)
Nobel Lecture: The Process and Progress of Economics (1983) (75)
Two Notes on the Coase Theorem (1989) (73)
The Theory of Competitive Price. (1943) (70)
Do Economists Matter (1976) (69)
Five Lectures on Economic Problems. (1950) (65)
Notes on the Theory of Duopoly (1940) (65)
The Origin of the Sherman Act (1985) (64)
Textual Exegesis as a Scientific Problem (1965) (64)
The Adoption of the Marginal Utility Theory (1972) (62)
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)
HENRY L. MOORE AND STATISTICAL ECONOMICS (1962) (51)
Monopolistic Competition in Retrospect (1972) (51)
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)
Administered Prices and Oligopolistic Inflation (1962) (40)
Alfred Marshall's Lectures on Progress and Poverty (1969) (38)
Industrial Prices, as Administered by Dr. Means (1973) (37)
The Economics of Carl Menger (1937) (37)
Selected Papers on Economic Theory (1960) (33)
Profits of Defense Contractors (1971) (31)
Employment and Compensation in Education. (1950) (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)
Wealth, and Possibly Liberty (1978) (21)
The Malthusian Controversy. (1952) (21)
On the "Chicago School of Economics": Comment (1962) (21)
The Conference Handbook (1977) (20)
Mergers and Preventive Antitrust Policy (1955) (19)
The Essence of Stigler (1986) (18)
Trends in Employment (1947) (17)
Front matter to "Domestic Servants in the United States, 1900-1940" (1946) (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)
A Generalization of the Theory of Imperfect Competition (1937) (16)
Palgrave's Dictionary of Economics (1988) (16)
The Goals of Economic Policy (1975) (16)
ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND SIZE OF PLANT: THE EVIDENCE AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1974) (16)
[Professor Stigler Revisited]: Comment (1964) (15)
Selections from The wealth of nations (1957) (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)
Charles Babbage (1791 + 200 = 1991) (1991) (14)
Marshall's Principles After Guillebaud (1962) (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)
The Economics of Conflict of Interest (1967) (13)
Notes on the History of the Giffen Paradox: A Reply (1948) (13)
The Business Services (1956) (13)
Five Lectures on Economic Problems (1950) (13)
Appendices to "Domestic Servants in the United States, 1900-1940" (1946) (12)
The Effects of Economic Policies on Votes for the Presidency: Some Evidence from Recent Elections: Comment (1975) (12)
A Historical Preface (1956) (11)
Can regulatory agencies protect consumers (1971) (10)
A Sketch of the History of Truth in Teaching (1973) (10)
Frank Knight as Teacher (1973) (9)
Front matter, The Behavior of Industrial Prices (1970) (9)
The Pleasures and Pains of Modern Capitalism (1996) (8)
Trends in Employment in the Service Industries. A Study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. (1958) (8)
PRODUCTION TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES (1970) (8)
Social Welfare and Differential Prices (1938) (8)
Private Vice and Public Virtue (1961) (8)
A Survey of Contemporary Economics (1949) (7)
Trends in Output (1947) (6)
The Ethics of Competition: The Friendly Economists (1980) (6)
Stuart Wood and the Marginal Productivity Theory (1947) (6)
An Academic Episode (1947) (6)
Report of the Task Force on Productivity and Competition (1969) (6)
A. E. A. Readings in Price Theory (1953) (6)
Frank Hyneman Knight (1985) (5)
Specialism: A Dissenting Opinion (1951) (5)
RICARDO OR HOLLANDER (1990) (5)
Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis (1954) (5)
Sraffian Economics (new Developments) (5)
Competition and the Rate of Return (1963) (5)
Principles of Political Economy. John Stuart Mill (1966) (4)
The Process of Economic Regulation (1972) (4)
Number 15 (1984) (4)
The Ethics of Competition: The Unfriendly Critics (1980) (4)
Alfred Marshall: Critical Assessments. John Cunningham Wood (1983) (4)
Introduction to "Business Concentration and Price Policy" (1955) (4)
The Dispersion of Price Movements (1970) (3)
Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons. Volume VII: Papers on Political Economy. (1983) (3)
Adam Smith and Public Choice: A Reply to Anderson (1989) (3)
11. Stigler's Law of Demand and Supply Elasticities (1984) (3)
The Amount of Information That Economic (3)
Book Review:A Revision of Demand Theory J. R. Hicks (1957) (3)
Ricardo or Hollander? [Ricardian Growth Theory: A Resolution of Some Problems in Textual Interpretation] (1990) (3)
Chronicles of Economics Birthday Book (1990) (3)
Labor Productivity and Size of Farm: A Statistical Pitfall (1946) (2)
Marshall on Market Price (1992) (2)
Competition and Concentration (1964) (2)
15. Elementary Economic Education (1984) (2)
Rent Control and the Housing Shortage: A Commentary on "Roofs or Ceilings?" by Friedman and Stigler (1947) (2)
Determinants of Participation in Presidential Elections: Comment (1975) (2)
Front matter to "The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel" (1957) (2)
High-Talent Manpower for Science and Industry (1958) (2)
The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel: Comment (1958) (2)
A Historical Note on the Short Run: Marshall and Friedman (1981) (1)
Divergence between Plant and Company Concentration, 1947. (1951) (1)
Book Review:The Economics of the International Patent System Edith Tilton Penrose (1952) (1)
Factors in the Trend of Employment in the Service Industries (1956) (1)
12. On Scientific Writing (1984) (1)
The Classification and Characteristics of Service Industries (1956) (1)
Engagement calendar 1985 great economists (1985) (1)
Tools of persuasion: the conseguences of economic rhetoric. (1989) (1)
The Emergence of "the" Problem of Industrial Prices (1970) (1)
Book Review:The Economics of Price Determination C. Clive Saxton (1944) (1)
Opportunity Cost of Marriage: Comment (1969) (1)
Book Review:The Travel Diaries of T. R. Malthus Patricia James (1967) (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)
The Politics of Political Economists: Reply (1960) (1)
5. Stigler's First Law of Sympathy (1984) (1)
Factors Influencing the Demand for Engineers and Chemists (1957) (0)
Back Matter (1967) (0)
Appendix B: The Construction of the NBER Index Numbers (1970) (0)
Social Science: Identifying Major Advances (1971) (0)
A General View of the Technological Professions (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, W. B. Todd (1977) (0)
Index to "Trends in Output and Employment" (1947) (0)
[Administered Prices and Oligopolistic Inflation]: Comment (1964) (0)
Appendix G: Analysis of Rates of Transfer out of the Engineering Profession for Engineers with Varying Years of Experience (1957) (0)
Elementary and Secondary Education (1950) (0)
Book Review:Small and Big Business: Economic Problems of the Size of Firms Joseph Steindl (1947) (0)
The Rate of Investment (1963) (0)
Appendix D: Projections of the Number of Engineering Degrees to 1970 (1957) (0)
3. The National Commission as an Instrument of Controlled Impartiality (1984) (0)
Indexes for Commodity Groups and for All Commodities Included (1970) (0)
Appendix H: The Engineers Joint Council Surveys (1957) (0)
Book Review:Fiscal Planning for Total War William Leonard Crum, John F. Fennelly, Lawrence Howard Seltzer (1943) (0)
The Flow of Investment and the Pattern of Rates of Return (1963) (0)
Front matter, preface, tables of content (1950) (0)
10. Freedom in the Academy (1984) (0)
The functions and resources of the american-university of the 21st-century-comments (1992) (0)
Economic Analysis. Kenneth E. Boulding (1941) (0)
Galbraith's TV marathon (1977) (0)
Appendix C: Tables on Engineering Enrollments and Degrees (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Logic of British and American Industry P. Sargant Florence (1955) (0)
Book reviews (1978) (0)
The Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation: Its Organization and Recommendations: Discussion (1972) (0)
Book Review:The Dynamic Economy Harold G. Moulton, Frank Palmer (1951) (0)
Appendix I: Advertisements for Engineers (1957) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS (1991) (0)
Book Review:Investment, Location, and Size of Plant P. Sargent Florence, W. Baldamus (1948) (0)
I The policy of American Universities towards divestment in South Africa (1986) (0)
14. The Alarming Cost of Model Changes: A Case Study (1984) (0)
Front matter for Trends in Employment in the Service Industries (1956) (0)
Programs for Using Agricultural Surpluses to Reduce Malnutrition and to Benefit Farmers: Discussion by George J. Stigler (1940) (0)
Supply and Demand for Mathemeticians and Physicists (1957) (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)
Economic Philosophy. Joan Robinson (1963) (0)
The Price Data: Procedures, Characteristics, and Limitations (1970) (0)
Babbage on Monopoly Price (1979) (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)
Front matter to "Trends in Output and Employment" (1947) (0)
Trends in Employment in the Service Industries, 1870-1950 (1958) (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)
9. Meager Means and Noble Ends (1984) (0)
Appendix A: Engineering Earnings (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)
Staff Reports: Wages, Employment, and Productivity (1956) (0)
The Characteristics of Servants (1946) (0)
Entrepreneur[i]al Costs and Price: A Reconsideration of Competitive and Monopolistic Market Theory. George Johnson Cady (1943) (0)
A Preview of the General Findings (1947) (0)
Absurd Culprits: Professors Suppressing Freedom?. (1973) (0)
The Nature of the Price Indexes (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)
Appendices to "Employment and Compensation in Education" (1950) (0)
The Professional Service Industries (1956) (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)
13. How to Pass Examinations in Economics (1984) (0)
Appendix B: Census Data on Number of Engineers and Chemists, 1890-1950 (1957) (0)
Tax on the Six-Cylinder Car (1989) (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)
Trends in Output per Worker (1947) (0)
The Future of Higher Education: An EconomicPerspective (1989) (0)
The Economics of Peace. Kenneth E. Boulding (1946) (0)
The Growth of the Service Industries (1956) (0)
Ricardian Economics: A Historical Study. Mark Blaug (1959) (0)
Comparison of Indexes for Individual Commodities (1970) (0)
Appendix E: Antitrust Cases (1970) (0)
Demand and Supply: Methods of Analysis (1957) (0)
Book Review:The Laws of Human Relations Herman H. Gossen (1984) (0)
Appendix A: Transcriptional Editing of Raw Data (1970) (0)
The Supply of Engineers (1957) (0)
Routine Personal Services (1956) (0)
Book reviews (1986) (0)
Think. A Biography of the Watsons and IBM. William Rodgers. Stein and Day, New York, 1969. 320 pp. + plates. $7.95 (1969) (0)
Mathematics in Economics: Further Comment (1955) (0)
The Wages and Hours of Servants (1946) (0)
Prometheus Incorporated: Conformity or Coercion? (1960) (0)
The Number of Servants, 1900-1940 (1946) (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)
Factors Affecting the Income of Servants (1946) (0)
Front matter, "Capital and Rates of Return in Manufacturing Industries" including Preface (1963) (0)
The Control of Competition in Canada, Lloyd G. Reynolds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1940. Pp. xiv+324. $3.50 (1940) (0)
Book Review:The Hard-Surface Floor-Covering Industry Robert F. Lanzillotti (1956) (0)
Appendix E: Reconciliation of 1940 and 1950 Census Counts of Engineers (1957) (0)
John Rae: Political Economist. R. Warren James (1965) (0)
Appendix C: Prices of Individual Commodities and Commodity Groups (1970) (0)
Discussion: Inflation and Government Policies (1957) (0)
Appendix D: Prices in Specfic Cycles (1970) (0)
Book Review:Wage Determination Under Trade Unions John T. Dunlop (1944) (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)
Elements of Modern Economics. Albert MeyersIntroduction to Economic Analysis. Archibald Mac Donald McIssac, James Gerald Smith (1939) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow (1984) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
Introduction to "Trends in Output and Employment" (1947) (0)

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