Economist

Edmund Phelps

American economist

1933 - 2026

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His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Phelps is the 50th most popular economist (up from 84th in 2024), the 854th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,110th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Economist.

Edmund Phelps is most famous for his book "Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change."

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Among Economists

Among economists, Edmund Phelps ranks 50 out of 414. Before him are John Hicks, Jacques Delors, Walt Whitman Rostow, William Petty, Bertil Ohlin, and Tansu Çiller. After him are Ronald Coase, Gary Becker, Trygve Haavelmo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Karl Polanyi, and Jeffrey Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Edmund Phelps ranks 37. Before him are Richard R. Ernst, Fouad Mebazaa, Ronald Evans, Kim Novak, Steven Weinberg, and Quincy Jones. After him are Álvaro Siza Vieira, Robert Curl, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jerry Falwell, Costa-Gavras, and Joan Collins. Among people deceased in 2026, Edmund Phelps ranks 8. Before him are Jürgen Habermas, Chuck Norris, Robert Duvall, Erich von Däniken, Mircea Lucescu, and Rifaat al-Assad. After him are Valentino, Ilia II of Georgia, Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Anthony James Leggett, and Birutė Galdikas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Phelps ranks 854 out of NaN. Before him are Harvey J. Alter (1935), Willard Libby (1908), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Laura Bush (1946), Monica Lewinsky (1973), and Isaac Singer (1811). After him are Paul Morphy (1837), Gary Becker (1930), Michio Kaku (1947), Larry Fink (1952), John Coltrane (1926), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811).

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Among Economists In United States

Among economists born in United States, Edmund Phelps ranks 12. Before him are Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), and Walt Whitman Rostow (1916). After him are Gary Becker (1930), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Theodore Schultz (1902), Douglass North (1920), Lawrence Klein (1920), and Kenneth Arrow (1921).

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