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

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

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

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.

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