George Stigler

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George Joseph Stigler (born January 17, 1911 in Renton , † December 1, 1991 in Chicago ) was an American economist . He was a major exponent of the Chicago School and a student of Frank Knight . In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics .

Life

George Stigler studied economics at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1931 and at Northwestern University (MBA 1932) and received his doctorate in 1938 at the University of Chicago with Frank Knight . From 1936 to 1938 he taught at Iowa State College , worked during World War II at Columbia University in the Manhattan Project , was a year after the war at Brown University and from 1947 to 1958 professor at Columbia University. In 1955 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society , 1959 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 1975 to the National Academy of Sciences .

In 1964, Stigler served as president-elect of the American Economic Association .

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Stigler made significant contributions to the New Political Economy . He was honored for his work on industrial organization , the functioning of markets and the causes and consequences of market regulation . In particular, he examined how political interest groups influence markets to their advantage. Another field of activity he helped found was the economics of information , set out in an influential 1961 essay. He also dealt with economic history.

Stigler was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society . In 1987 he received the National Medal of Science .

Fonts

  • Production and Distribution Theories: The Formative Period . New York: Macmillan. 1941, 1994
  • The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market . In: Journal of Political Economy . tape 59 , no. 3 , 1951, pp. 185-193 .
  • The Economics of Information , Journal of Political Economy, Volume 69, 1961, pp. 213-225
  • Information in the Labor Market , Journal of Political Economy, Volume 70, 1962, 94-105
  • The Intellectual and the Marketplace . Selected Papers, no. 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. 1962
  • with Paul Samuelson A Dialogue on the Proper Economic Role of the State. Selected Papers, no.7., Pp. 3-20, Chicago: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. 1963
  • Capital and Rates of Return in Manufacturing Industries . National Bureau of Economic Research, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1963
  • Essays in the History of Economics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1965
  • The Organization of Industry . Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin 1968
  • with JK Kindahl: The Behavior of Industrial Prices . National Bureau of Economic Research, New York: Columbia University Press. 1970
  • The Theory of Economic Regulation , Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, no. 3, 1971, pp. 3-18.
  • Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation . 1975
  • The Process and Progress of Economics , Nobel Lecture 1982
  • The Economist as Preacher, and Other Essays . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1982
  • The Organization of Industry . 1983
  • Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist , 1985 (autobiography)
  • KR Leube, TG Moore (Editor) The Essence of Stigler , 1986
  • The Theory of Price , Fourth Edition. New York: Macmillan. 1987
  • as editor: Chicago Studies in Political Economy . 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed October 29, 2015 .