George Stigler Memoirs

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Publish Date: 2006-11-23
Features: The most outstanding economist of the 20th century, founder of regulation and information economics, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics. With a humorous and witty style, the author 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 who appear in the book as colleagues from the University of Chicago.