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 career
FieldMacroeconomics
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
Australian National University
University of Auckland
School or
tradition
Neo-Keynesian economics
Alma materLondon School of Economics
InfluencesIrving Fisher
John Maynard Keynes
ContributionsPhillips 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.

  1. ^ Nicholas Barr, "Phillips, Alban William Housego (1914–1975)" (subscription required), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 4 July 2008.