George Stigler Memoirs

Author: (USA) Stigler
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: One of the most outstanding economists of the 20th century, founder of the fields of regulation and information economics, 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate. With a humorous and witty style, the book reflects on the colorful world of economics. This book describes the author's pioneering contributions to information economics and government regulation theory, his attitudes and views on academic freedom, the expansion of economics into sociology and political science, and the nature of scientific discovery. It also tells many anecdotes and about the economics community with a humorous and witty tone, featuring many great scholars as colleagues from the University of Chicago.