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Clearly, the title chosen to personify this beginning section of the volume is referring to the old Irish folk song as well as having a bit of fun. Whether anyone had the sheer nerve to ever refer to George Stigler as Georgie is entirely another matter. Perhaps a stretch of the imagination would allow his mother to refer to a five-year-old version as Georgie, but even that would appear doubtful.
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Freedman, C. (2020). Georgie, We Hardly Knew Ye: Personal Reflections on George Stigler. In: Freedman, C. (eds) George Stigler. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56815-1_2
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