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Brad Bateman: 
 
But Stigler was the author of The Economist as Preacher and had a 
non-Whiggish view of, for example, why the "kinky [!] demand curve" had 
survived.  He won his Nobel Prize for his work on information.  What he 
wrote about influence in the economics profession betrayed a sociologists' 
view of knowledge which I think had been cultivated during his student 
years at Chicago and which blossomed, for him, in the 1950s.  He played a 
crucial role in the process by which Chicago overcame Cambridge. 
 
Robert Leeson 
University of Western Ontario 
 
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