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As a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit.
--George Stigler
Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.
--George Stigler
Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live.
--George Stigler
If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport.
--George Stigler
It is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
--George Stigler
Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.
--George Stigler
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
--George Stigler
The number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.
--George Stigler
There is only one social science and we are its practitioners.
--George Stigler
Two characteristics of government are that it cannot do anything quickly, and that it never knows when to quit.
--George Stigler
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