Edmund Phelps, born in 1933 in Evanston, spent his childhood in Chicago and, from age six, grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. He earned his B.A. from Amherst in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1959. He is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics and the Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. In 2010 he became Dean of the New Huadu Business School in Fuzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Zurich. He has written a dozen full-length books on growth, unemployment, slumps, innovation and job satisfaction.
