stigler in A Sentence

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    Luckily for Stigler, the joke didn't fall flat.

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    Stigler and“His” Law of Eponymy.

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    George Stigler Simons.

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    (University of Chicago economist George Stigler dubbed this“regulatory capture.”).

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    So, not once, but twice, Stigler's Law became proof of itself, while simultaneously Merton's Matthew Effect, which helped inspire it, is on full display in the ordeal.

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    Stigler's Law was not only seen as a genuine, touching tribute to a man who had made remarkable contributions to his field, but the“law” itself fell into general use, being cited in over a hundred academic papers since Stigler's little tribute.

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    Merton explored the concept of the Matthew Effect in a paper aptly titled, The Matthew Effect in Science which was read by, among others, statistician, Stephen Stigler who would eventually end up corresponding with Merton over their mutual interest in the field of sociology.

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    Knowing that Merton had written extensively on the concept of misapplied credit in the scientific world and that, as Merton had previously coined the term“self-fulfilling prophecy” in his 1948 paper of the same name, he had a particular fondness for examples of rules which proved themselves, Stigler decided to pen a paper that incorporated both concepts.

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    Unbeknownst to Stigler, before his summation of a portion of Merton's work in a single sentence, an almost identical sentiment to Stigler's Law had already independently been expressed by a mathematician called Hubert Kennedy in 1972, ironically enough around the same time Merton was exploring the subject and a year before his The Sociology of Science was published.

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