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Edmund Phelps

1933 - Today

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Edmund Strother Phelps (born July 26, 1933) is 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. Phelps was at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Phelps is the 50th most popular economist (up from 84th in 2019), the 854th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,110th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Economist.

Edmund Phelps is most famous for his book "Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change."

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Edmund Phelps ranks 50 out of 414. Before him are John Hicks, Jacques Delors, Walt Whitman Rostow, William Petty, Bertil Ohlin, and Tansu Çiller. After him are Ronald Coase, Gary Becker, Trygve Haavelmo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Karl Polanyi, and Jeffrey Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Edmund Phelps ranks 37. Before him are Richard R. Ernst, Fouad Mebazaa, Ronald Evans, Kim Novak, Steven Weinberg, and Quincy Jones. After him are Álvaro Siza Vieira, Robert Curl, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jerry Falwell, Costa-Gavras, and Joan Collins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Phelps ranks 854 out of 20,380. Before him are Harvey J. Alter (1935), Willard Libby (1908), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Laura Bush (1946), Monica Lewinsky (1973), and Isaac Singer (1811). After him are Paul Morphy (1837), Gary Becker (1930), Michio Kaku (1947), Larry Fink (1952), John Coltrane (1926), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Edmund Phelps ranks 12. Before him are Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), and Walt Whitman Rostow (1916). After him are Gary Becker (1930), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Theodore Schultz (1902), Douglass North (1920), Lawrence Klein (1920), and Kenneth Arrow (1921).

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