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Also known as Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr., Edmund S. Phelps, Edmund Strother Phelps

American economist

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Edmund Phelps is an American economist affiliated with The Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. He was born on July 26, 1933. His professional profile includes an Erdős number of 4.

Phelps has been recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is listed in the Nobel Prize database under the name Edmund S. Phelps. Crossref records indicate he has five works, while Open Library lists zero works under his name.

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Country
US
Active from
1969-10-21

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  • The stampede toward “rational expectations” — widely thought to be a “revolution,” though it was only a generalization of the neoclassical idea of equilibrium—derailed the expectations-driven model building that had just left the station. In the end, this way of modeling has not illuminated how the world economy works.
  • When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2006

    for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy

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Edmund Phelps

Edmund Phelps, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is McVickar Professor Emeritus of Political Economy. From its founding in 2001 until its closing in 2024, he was Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Born in 1933, he spent his childhood in Chicago

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Encyclopedic overview

Edmund Strother Phelps (July 26, 1933 – May 15, 2026) was an American economist and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Early in his career, he became known for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth. His demonstration of the golden rule savings rate, a concept related to work by John von Neumann, started a wave of research on how much a nation should spend on present consumption rather than save and invest for future generations.

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