The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
George StiglerMy teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
George StiglerThe main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization
George Stigler