George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
government people free-press
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
science intense sociology
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.
theory publishing
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
teaching college iowa
My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
science numbers forever
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
training chicago graduates
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
directors fierce cliche
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
money moving car
Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.
yield chicago economic
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
social social-science
There is only one social science and we are its practitioners
regulation study 1960s
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
wife chicago married
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
chicago
In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.
topics size survivor
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.