BIO: EDMUND PHELPS
Nobel Prize-winning economist
Age: 80
? 2006
Nobel Prize winner for Economics
Education
? 1955
BA in economics, Amherst College
? 1959
PhD in economics, Yale University
Career
? 1959-66
various positions at Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
? 1966-71
professor of economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-71
? 1978-79
professor of economics, New York University
? 1971-82
professor of economics, Columbia University
? 1992-93
resident consultant, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
? 1997－2000
senior advisor, strategic project, Italy in Europe, Consiglio delle Ricerche,
? 1982-now
McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University
? 2001-now
director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University,
? 2010-now
dean, New Huadu Business School at Fuzhou University
Favorite books: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann－"I couldn't understand a word of it but it is a product of a feverish imagination and written at a time when the West was an exciting place."
Music: Die Meistersinger by Richard Wagner; Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini; Symphony No 5 in E minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Film: The Lady Vanishes (1938); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Food: Tuna tartare－"Whenever I go to a fancy restaurant, I find this irresistible."
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