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

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

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

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization