Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.