Edmund Phelps appeared in an interview with INET, Rekindling the Spirit of Innovation, in which he reflects on the diminishing sense of creativity and discovery that once thrived from the late 19th century to the 1970s. A link to the video is here.
The Spanish edition of Edmund Phelps' My Journeys was published by Editiones Duesto this week. Mis viajes alrededor de la teoría económica is avaialble here.
Edmund Phelps delivered a lecture based on his memoir, My Journeys in Economic Theory, last week to a packed house at Seton Hall University. A recap of the event is available here.
La Nacion has published "Rereading Edmund Phelps," on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing, available in Spanish here.
We at the Center on Capitalism and Society are saddened to learn of the passing of Charles E. M. Kolb on July 13, 2023. Charlie was a great friend to the Center and a valued participant in many Center conferences over the years. His intelligence, warmth, and enthusiasm will be greatly missed.
A tribute to Charlie, published by the OpenSecrets foundation, of which he was a distinguished board member, can be found here.
We extend our deepest sympathies to his many colleagues, his family, and his friends.
Vivek Arora calls Edmund Phelps's My Journeys in Economic Theory "profound, far-reaching, and novel" in the IMF's Finance and Development—read the full review here.
Martin Wolf named Edmund Phelps's memoir, My Journeys in Economic Theory, one of the best economics books of 2023 in the Financial Times. Click here to read.
Videos are now available from all sessions in the Center's 20th annual conference, Let's Talk About Capitalism – And Society Too, held September 18, 2023 at Columbia's Faculty House.
Edmund Phelps, Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Sachs, Redesigning Politics for Sustainable Development
Andrzej Rapaczynski, Capitalism and the Challenge of Inequality
Vicky Pryce, Women vs Capitalism: How the System, Left to Itself, Constrains and Undervalues…
The latest book by Center director Edmund Phelps and members Hian Teck Hoon and Gylfi Zoega is The Great Economic Slowdown: How Narrowed Technical Progress Brought Static Wages, Sky-High Wealth, and Much Discontent, out now from Palgrave.
The book charts the fall of productivity growth and the rise of inequality within global economies and societies. Set out through a series of economic models, the impact of falling rates of productivity growth, particularly in the USA, are examined in relation to lowering interest rates, the lifting of the stock market, and an increasingly unequal distribution…
Harvard's Eric Maskin has penned a tribute to Edmund Phelps on the occasion of the Center on Capitalism and Society's 20th annual conference, held September 18 at Faculty House. Click here to read the piece.
Thank you to the many friends and members of the Center who joined us for the event.
Canada's The Hub has published an excellent discussion of Director Edmund Phelps's memoir, My Journeys in Economic Theory.