Edmund Phelps: key obituary facts
Is Edmund Phelps dead? Yes. Edmund Phelps died on May 15, 2026, at age 92.
Cause of death: Edmund Phelps's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Edmund Phelps known for?
He was an American economist.
More about Edmund Phelps
Born: 26 July 1933.
Place of birth: Evanston.
Place of death: New York City.
Gender: male.
Occupation: economist, university teacher.
Nationality: United States.
Education: Yale University, Amherst College, University of Pennsylvania.
Employer: Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Center on Capitalism and Society.
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Global Economy Prize, honorary doctor of Paris Dauphine University, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Also known as: Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr., Edmund S. Phelps, Edmund Strother Phelps.
Edmund Phelps, an American economist and 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, died on May 16, 2026.
He was 92. Born in Evanston, Illinois, on July 26, 1933, Phelps was known early in his career for research at Yale’s Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth.
His work on the golden rule savings rate helped prompt further study of how nations balance present consumption with saving and investment for the future. Phelps was at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971. He later developed the natural rate of unemployment.
Edmund Phelps, 92, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (2006). (death announced on this date)