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 teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.