In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

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I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

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My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

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I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

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I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

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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.

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After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

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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.

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