Edmund Strother Phelps 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1933 (age 90 years), Evanston, IL
Education: Yale University (1959), Amherst College (1955), and Hastings High School
Notable students: David Colander and Mordecai Kurz
Influenced by: Paul Samuelson, Bill Phillips, James Tobin, and more
Doctoral advisor: James Tobin; Arthur Okun