Overview
- Features contributions from a wide-range of economists as well as interviews with George Stigler's family and friends;
- Examines the work of George Stigler from a variety of perspectives including his influence on other economists;
- Places modern economics in perspective by looking at the way in which Stigler’s work helped shape the discipline.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Biographical Perspective
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Front Matter
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Voyages on the Seas of History and Economic Thought
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About this book
At heart always a shy boy from the provinces, defending himself and his beliefs against the demands of a more wicked and devious world, he remained one of the only truly inscrutable figures in the history of modern economics. A kind, deeply caring family man, he fended off those outside his inner circle by employing a razor sharp, and often cruel, wit, keeping friends, colleagues and especially enemies at an arm’s distance. “… [there was] the student who came to George complaining that he didn’t deserve the ‘F’ he’d received in George’s course. George agreed but explained that ‘F’ was the lowest grade the administration allowed him to give.” Many who had the fortune, or misfortune, of coming within the range of his sharp tongue, even in the seeming context of an innocent encounter, would bear the scars of that contact for years to come. “With a paper like this, [delivering it] under the table, would not be inappropriate.”
This volume is then one of the first to shed light on an entirely enigmatic figure by approaching both the man and his work from very divergent and original perspectives. Whether it succeeds is up to the whims of the reader. Or as George Stigler was wont to say, “Let the chips fall where they may.”
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: George Stigler
Book Subtitle: Enigmatic Price Theorist of the Twentieth Century
Editors: Craig Freedman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56815-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56814-4Published: 23 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56815-1Published: 22 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 804
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Heterodox Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods