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Edmund Phelps is the 2006 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, for having "deepened our understanding of the relation between short-run and long-run effects of macroeconomic policy." He is the Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Phelps spoke at Cato's 2014 conference, "[The Future of U.S. Economic Growth](https://www.cato.org/events/future-us-economic-growth)." **Speeches at the Cato Institute** 
[*The Future of Economic Growth: What Is to Be Done*](https://www.cato.org/events/future-us-economic-growth), December 4, 2014

**Other Resources** 
[Phelps' page on the Nobel Prize website](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2006/phelps-bio.html) 
A review of his book, [*Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change*](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2015/2/cj-v35n1-8.pdf), in the *Cato Journal*, Winter 2015