Bill Phillips (economist)
Bill Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alban William Housego Phillips 18 November 1914 Te Rehunga near Dannevirke |
| Died | 4 March 1975 (aged 60) |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Influences | Irving Fisher John Maynard Keynes |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | Neo-Keynesian economics |
| Institutions | London School of Economics Australian National University University of Auckland |
| Notable ideas | Phillips 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.