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.

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

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

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

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

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.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.