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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
George Stigler
Born: January 17, 1911
Died: December 1, 1991 (aged 80)
Bio: George Joseph Stigler was a U.S. economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982, and was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics, along with Milton Friedman.
Known for:
- The Organization of Industry (1983)
- Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist (1985)
- Chicago Studies in Political Economy (1988)
- The Intellectual and the Marketplace (1962)
- The Essence of Stigler (1986)
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