Edmund S. Phelps
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"
Field: macroeconomics
Contribution: Deepened our understanding of the relation between short-run and long-run effects of macroeconomic policy.
Prize share: 1/1