George Joseph Stigler was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1982, announced October 20, 1982. George J. Stigler, “for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation”. George J. Stigler: born 1911, Renton, WA, USA. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).