----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- My colleague Bryan Boulier once told me that the quote is attributed to Stigler by Ernst Berndt in Berndt's THE PRACTICE OF ECONOMETRICS. I do not know if Berndt himself is actually citing some other source. Robert S. Goldfarb George Washington Univ ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]