Download or read book The Intellectual and the Marketplace written by George Joseph Stigler and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Stigler's professional writings are laced with his legendary wit, but The Intellectual and the Marketplace is his only book to give that wit full rein. From "Festschriften" to "A Sketch of the History of Truth in Teaching" to "The Alarming Cost of Model Changes," readers will find both humor and instruction. "Professor Stigler writes with a wit that is even more to be cherished than his erudition. Economics would never have been called the dismal science if there had been a nineteenth-century Stigler." The Economist