Bill Phillips (economist)

Bill Phillips
Born
Alban William Housego Phillips

(1914-11-18)18 November 1914
Died4 March 1975(1975-03-04) (aged 60)
NationalityNew Zealand
Academic background
Alma materLondon School of Economics
InfluencesIrving Fisher
John Maynard Keynes
Academic work
DisciplineMacroeconomics
School or traditionNeo-Keynesian economics
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics
Australian National University
University of Auckland
Notable ideasPhillips curve

Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE (18 November 1914 – 4 March 1975) 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 relating level of employment and inflation in 1958. He also designed and built the MONIAC hydraulic computer macroeconomic model in 1949.