(p. C8) Although he never reached the renown of his lifelong friend Milton Friedman, George Stigler was a founding member of the Chicago school of economics. His charming and readable memoir—really a linked series of vignettes—recounts his time at Chicago, from graduate school to professor.
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Riveting accounts of notable moments in the history of economic thought include the “Coase conversion evening”—a long argument that ended with Friedman convincing 20 economists to embrace a founding theorem of the law and economics movement. “What an exhilarating event,” Stigler recalls. “I lamented afterward that we had not had the clairvoyance to tape it.”
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(Note: the online version of the review has the date November 3, 2023, and has the title “Five Best: Lives of Economists.”)
The book under review is:
Stigler, George J. Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1988.