BIO: EDMUND PHELPS

Nobel Prize-winning economist

Age: 80

? 2006

Nobel Prize winner for Economics

Education

? 1955

BA in economics, Amherst College

? 1959

PhD in economics, Yale University

Career

? 1959-66

various positions at Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

? 1966-71

professor of economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-71

? 1978-79

professor of economics, New York University

? 1971-82

professor of economics, Columbia University

? 1992-93

resident consultant, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London

? 1997－2000

senior advisor, strategic project, Italy in Europe, Consiglio delle Ricerche,

? 1982-now

McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University

? 2001-now

director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University,

? 2010-now

dean, New Huadu Business School at Fuzhou University

Favorite books: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann－"I couldn't understand a word of it but it is a product of a feverish imagination and written at a time when the West was an exciting place."

Music: Die Meistersinger by Richard Wagner; Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini; Symphony No 5 in E minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Film: The Lady Vanishes (1938); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Food: Tuna tartare－"Whenever I go to a fancy restaurant, I find this irresistible."