Edmund S. Phelps

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Edmund S. Phelps

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Edmund S. Phelps
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006

Born: 26 July 1933, Evanston, IL, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Prize motivation: "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy."

Contribution: Deepened our understanding of the relation between short-run and long-run effects of macroeconomic policy.

Prize share: 1/1

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