🔬Science & Academia
Edmund Phelps
American · 92 years old · Died 15 May 2026
Nobel Prize in Economics (2006): inflation and unemployment trade-offs
Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. He challenged the prevailing Phillips curve orthodoxy and showed that there is no permanent trade-off between the two, only a short-run one. His work reshaped macroeconomic policy and influenced central banks around the world.
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