George Stigler: Enigmatic Price Theorist of the Twentieth Century
Intro -- Heart on a Sleeve -- By Way of a Contradiction -- The Lonely Heart: An Attempt in Search of a Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- The Protestant Father as Economist -- Unravelling the Riddle: Stigler as the Perennial Hedgehog Disguised as a Fox -- Barbarians at the Gate: Protecting the Neoclassical Damsel in Distress -- References -- A Biographical Perspective -- Georgie, We Hardly Knew Ye: Personal Reflections on George Stigler -- References -- The Curmudgeon as Teacher: Afternoon Coffee with Mark Blaug -- The Interview -- References -- Fathers and Sons: A Conversation with Stephen Stigler -- The Interview -- References -- The Way Things Work: The Empirical Bent of Economists-Ronald Coase on George Stigler -- Conversation -- References -- The Chicago Battler: Sherwin Rosen on George Stigler, Chicago and Economics -- The Interview -- References -- What Price Glory: James Kindahl Airs Some Views on George Stigler -- The Interview -- References -- George Stigler's Career Moves: The Roles of Contingency, Self-Interest, Ideology, and Intellectual Commitment -- Iowa State and Minnesota -- The Abortive Effort to Recruit Stigler to Chicago in 1946 -- Department Vote and Rankings -- Stigler at Brown and Columbia -- Further Abortive Efforts to Recruit Stigler to Chicago in the Early 1950s Reflecting Reticence of Both Parties -- Stigler and the Walgreen Foundation -- Stigler and His Successors as Directors of the Walgreen Foundation -- Center for the Study of the Economy and the State -- Conclusion -- Contingency -- Self-Interest -- Ideology -- Intellectual Commitment -- References -- Voyages on the Seas of History and Economic Thought -- Historical Ambiguity: Reshaping the Snows of Yesteryear -- References -- George Stigler's Adam Smith: Successes and Failures -- "Adam Smith's Travels on the Ship of State".