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- Dec. 16, 1991: Died:George Stigler
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 67
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- <p> DIED. George Stigler, 80, pioneering free-market economist;
- in Chicago. Since 1958 Stigler and fellow University of Chicago
- professor Milton Friedman helped to shape the so-called Chicago
- school of economics, which promotes government deregulation. He
- won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics for his path-breaking
- research on industrial organization. His work, which was
- characterized by rigorous scrutiny of data, led to a new
- understanding of the connection between government regulation
- and the economy.
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