Phillip Nelson

For people named Philip Nelson with only one L, see Philip Nelson (disambiguation).

Phillip Jacob Nelson (born 1929)[1] is an emeritus professor at Binghamton University, where he was Bartle Professor of Economics.[2] He is noted for having been the first to observe the distinction between an experience good and a search good.[3]

Nelson obtained his doctorate in 1957 from Columbia University, with a dissertation titled "A Study in the Geographic Mobility of Labor".[4]

  1. ^ Birthdate from Hathitrust catalog entry for Signaling Goodness
  2. ^ Faculty 1999–2000, SUNY Binghamton, retrieved 2015-03-10.
  3. ^ Cabral, Luis M. B. (2000), Introduction to Industrial Organization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, p. 223, ISBN 978-0-262-03286-5.
  4. ^ Acknowledgements footnote from Nelson, P. (1959), "Migration, Real Income and Information", Journal of Regional Science, 1 (2): 43–74, Bibcode:1959JRegS...1...43N, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1959.tb01460.x.