sexta-feira, setembro 12, 2003

Stigler: a saga do bom humor

Sempre gostei de Stigler. Mas nunca havia lido esta engraçada passagem de sua autobiografia na página do Prêmio Nobel:

Throughout the last 40 years, I have maintained a continued interest in the history of economics (as an aside, I am a diligent book collector; my oldest son is equally active in the history of statistics, and my oldest grandson has an immense collection of comic books - leading some friends to suggest a new gene!). That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

Genial, heim? :-)