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Edmund Phelps
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American economist
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Edmund S. Phelps was born in 1933. He is affiliated with The Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. His work is recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Phelps holds an Erdős number of 4. He has received one Nobel Prize.
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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”
Official website
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Phelps
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Evanston
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Pennsylvania
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- James Tobin
- Official website
- www.columbia.edu/~esp2
- Image
- Edmund Phelps 2008-01-23.jpg
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- name in native language
- Edmund Phelps
- Commons category
- Edmund Phelps
- date of birth
- 1933-07-26
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- influenced by
- Paul Samuelson
- affiliation string
- The Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- political economics
- curriculum vitae URL
- capitalism.columbia.edu/files/ccs/person/cv/2019/cv_october_18_2019.pdf
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +1-212-854-2060
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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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