George Stigler

Craig Freedman, having failed to succeed as a professional mime or a forensic accountant, in a move reeking of desperation, settled on becoming an academic economist instead. Whether this was an inspired or well-intention decision remains unknown.

• 1. The Protestant Father as Economist- Craig Freedman.- Part I: A Biographical Perspective.- 2. The Curmudgeon as Teacher: Afternoon Coffee with Mark Blaug- Craig Freedman.- 3. Fathers and Sons: A Conversation with Stephen Stigler- Craig Freedman.- 4. The Way Things Work: The Empirical Bent of Economists: Ronald Coase on George Stigler- Craig Freedman.- 5. The Chicago Battler: Sherwin Rosen on George Stigler, Chicago and Economics- Craig Freedman.- 6. What Price Glory: James Kindahl Airs Some Views on George Stigler- Craig Freedman.- 7. George Stigler’s Career Moves:  The roles of contingency, self-interest, ideology, and intellectual commitment- David Mitch.- Part II: Voyages on the Seas of History and Economic Thought.- 8. George Stigler’s Adam Smith: Successes and Failures- Jeffrey T. Young.- 9. George Stigler as a Reader of Adam Smith- David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart.- 10. Stigler on Ricardo- Heinz D. Kurz.- 11. George Stigler: Marshall’s Loyal but Faithless Follower- Neil Hart.- 12.Shattering Hope and Building Empire: Economics Imperialism at Chicago, George Stigler and Aaron Director- Edward Nik-Khah and Robert Van Horn.- 13. George Stigler, the first apostle of the “Coase theorem”- Elodie Bertrand.- 14. Roads Not Taken: The Coase Conundrum- Craig Freedman.- 15. George J. Stigler’s relationship to the Virginia school of political economy- Gordon L. Brady and Francesco Forte.- Part III: The Pervasive Lightness of the Chicago Price Theory.- 16.Between Old and New: George Stigler’s Chicago Price Theory- J. Daniel Hammond.- 17. George Stigler: Knowledge, preferences and (self-interested) choices- Marina Bianchi.- 18. Textual and Scientific Exegesis: George Stigler and Method in Economic Science- M. Ali Khan  and Edward E. Schlee.- 19. Stigler on the Science of Economics: A Tale of Two Knights- Peter J. Boettke  & Rosolino A. Candela.- 20. James Buchanan and George Stigler: Divergent Legacies from Frank Knight- Richard E. Wagner.