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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5997-2 entrenched economic positions. Consequently, empirical research for such determined advocates like George Stigler and Gardiner Means become more of a convenient rhetorical weapon than the basis for determining answers to posed problems. Supposed evidence in such cases comes to serve more as a means

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3791-9 at the University of Chicago until the age of 47. This essay will provide a narrative account of George Stigler’s various career transitions from graduate school through his “retirement.” This narrative structure will be employed to bring out what archival material implies about a number of general

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