The Intellectual and the Marketplace : : Enlarged Edition / / George J. Stigler.

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1984
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Enl. ed. Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (166 p.) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • ONE. Mostly about Universities
  • 1. An Academic Episode
  • 2. Specialism: A Dissenting Opinion
  • 3. The National Commission as an Instrument of Controlled Impartiality
  • 4. The Economics of Conflict of Interest
  • 5. Stigler's First Law of Sympathy
  • 6. Festschriften
  • 7. The Conference Handbook
  • 8. A Sketch of the History of Truth in Teaching
  • 9. Meager Means and Noble Ends
  • 10. Freedom in the Academy
  • TWO. All about Economics
  • 11. Stigler's Law of Demand and Supply Elasticities
  • 12. On Scientific Writing
  • 13. How to Pass Examinations in Economics
  • 14. The Alarming Cost of Model Changes: A Case Study
  • 15. Elementary Economic Education
  • 16. The Case, if Any for Economic Literacy
  • 17. Wealth, and Possibly Liberty
  • 18. The Intellectual and the Marketplace
  • Sources and Acknowledgments. Index
  • Sources and Acknowledgments
  • Index