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Bill Phillips | |
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Born | Alban William Housego Phillips 18 November 1914 Te Rehunga near Dannevirke |
Died | 4 March 1975 | (aged 60)
Nationality | New Zealand |
Academic career | |
Field | Macroeconomics |
Institution | London School of Economics Australian National University University of Auckland |
School or tradition | Neo-Keynesian economics |
Alma mater | London School of Economics |
Influences | Irving Fisher John Maynard Keynes |
Contributions | Phillips curve |
Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE (18 November 1914 – 4 March 1975)[1] was a New Zealand economist who spent most of his academic career as a professor of economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). He invented the Phillips curve of economics in 1958. He also designed and built the MONIAC hydraulic economics computer in 1949.