Edmund Phelps

Quotes

• “Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Sil...”
• “At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we d...”
• “No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is ...”
• “What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the...”
• “Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions withou...”
• “I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance...”