Stigler the Irrational -- Anecdote by Van Dun
In Frank Van Dun's Argumentation Ethics and the Philosophy of Freedom, he has a delicious little anecdote about Stigler in a footnote:
I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.
