And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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.

...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.

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

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.