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George Stigler was the quintessential practical economist. Looking through his classic book The Theory of Price, one is in awe by how many principles of economics are illustrated with real data rather than hypothetical, made up examples. A professor at the University of Chicago, Stigler went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics in 1982. Although deceased Stigler deserves, probably more than any other economist, credit for getting economists to look at real data and evidence, as opposed to fictional statistics.
Born in Seattle on January 17, 1911 Stigler was the only child of Joseph and Elizabeth Stigler, both immigrants who came to America; his father from Bavaria and his mother from Austria-Hungary. Stigler went to public schools as a child, and eventually attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, receiving a B.A. in 1931. After graduating he applied for, and received, a fellowship for graduate study in the business school of Northwestern University, receiving his MBA in 1932 (nap.edu/gstigler)...