Edmund Phelps

Edmund Phelps is a former RSF visiting scholar (1993-1994), the editor of the RSF book Altruism, Morality, and Economic Theory (1975), and the recipient of multiple grants from RSF. He is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and the director of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society. He has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2002), Chevalier of France's Legion of Honor (2008), and is the recipient of the Global Economy Prize of Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2008).