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 .
personal data
SURNAME Stigler, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stigler, George Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Renton (Washington)
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1991
Place of death Chicago