George Stigler

Tags: Economist.

George Joseph Stigler (January 17 1911 – December 1 1991) was a U.S. economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982 and was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics along with Milton Friedman.Stigler was born in Seattle Washington of German descent. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1931 with a B.A and then spent a year at Northwestern University from which he obtained his M.B.A in 1932.

alma mater

University of Chicago, University of Washington, Northwestern University

award

National Medal of Science, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

birth date

1911-01-17

birth place

Seattle

death date

1991-12-01

death place

Chicago

field

Economics

individualised GND number

118923994

influenced

Mark Blaug, Jacques Drèze, Thomas Sowell

influenced by

Milton Friedman, Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, Henry Calvert Simons

institution

Brown University, Columbia University, Iowa State University, University of Chicago

nationality

United States