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.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.

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

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.