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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Historical Ambiguity: Reshaping the Snows of Yesteryear

Author : Craig Freedman

Published in: George Stigler

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

History of economic thought may have been George Stigler’s first love, but he turned out to be something of a feckless lover as the years rolled by. (It raises the question of why at crucial moments Stigler obviously didn’t seem to give a feck.) At times, his attitude to the field, which greatly benefited from his efforts, parallels the closed-minded perspective of the mechanically gifted but entirely cantankerous Henry Ford. These moments reveal an academic who considers his passion to be something of a guilty pleasure, like someone catching up on his macramé during an academic conference.

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Metadata
Title
Historical Ambiguity: Reshaping the Snows of Yesteryear
Author
Craig Freedman
Copyright Year
2020
Book
George Stigler

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-56814-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-56815-1

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56815-1_9