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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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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