George Stigler Facts for Kids

George Joseph Stigler (January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982. He was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics, along with Milton Friedman. He was born in Seattle, Washington.

Stigler died in Chicago, Illinois from heart failure, aged 80.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

1969–1975	Ragnar Frisch / Jan Tinbergen (1969) • Paul Samuelson (1970) • Simon Kuznets (1971) • John Hicks / Kenneth Arrow (1972) • Wassily Leontief (1973) • Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich Hayek (1974) • Leonid Kantorovich / Tjalling Koopmans (1975)

1976–2000	Milton Friedman (1976) • Bertil Ohlin / James Meade (1977) • Herbert Simon (1978) • Theodore Schultz / Arthur Lewis (1979) • Lawrence Klein (1980) • James Tobin (1981) • George Stigler (1982) • Gérard Debreu (1983) • Richard Stone (1984) • Franco Modigliani (1985) • James M. Buchanan (1986) • Robert Solow (1987) • Maurice Allais (1988) • Trygve Haavelmo (1989) • Harry Markowitz / Merton Miller / William Forsyth Sharpe (1990) • Ronald Coase (1991) • Gary Becker (1992) • Robert Fogel / Douglass North (1993) • John Harsanyi / John Forbes Nash / Reinhard Selten (1994) • Robert Lucas, Jr. (1995) • James Mirrlees / William Vickrey (1996) • Robert C. Merton / Myron Scholes (1997) • Amartya Sen (1998) • Robert Mundell (1999) • James Heckman / Daniel McFadden (2000)

2001–present	George Akerlof / Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001) • Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith (2002) • Robert F. Engle / Clive Granger (2003) • Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott (2004) • Robert Aumann / Thomas Schelling (2005) • Edmund Phelps (2006) • Leonid Hurwicz / Eric Maskin / Roger Myerson (2007) • Paul Krugman (2008) • Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson (2009) • Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides (2010) • Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims (2011) • Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley (2012) • Eugene Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller (2013) • Jean Tirole (2014) • Angus Deaton (2015)

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