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George Stigler
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American economist (1911–1991)
George Stigler was an American economist who made important contributions to understanding how markets work and how businesses compete, earning the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982. His ideas shaped modern thinking about regulation, competition, and the way information flows through economies, influencing both academic economics and real-world policy decisions.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1982
“for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Stigler
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Renton
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Child
- Stephen Stigler
- Occupation
- economist
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Kellogg School of Management
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Frank Knight
- Field of work
- economics
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- date of birth
- 1911-01-17
- date of death
- 1991-12-01
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- cause of death
- heart failure
- name in native language
- George Joseph Stigler
- influenced by
- Milton Friedman
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
George Joseph Stigler (/ˈstɪɡlər/; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics.
Early life and education
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