Op-Eds and Letters


"Germany is right to ask for austerity"
Op-ed by Prof. Phelps
Financial Times
July 20, 2012
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"Versucht es mal mit Kapitalismus"
Op-ed by Prof. Phelps
Financial Times Deutschland
August 24, 2011
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"More Harm than Good: How the IMF's business model sabotages properly functioning capitalism."
Op-ed, Newsweek
July 11, 2011
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"Tunisians set off on the road from serfdom"
Comment, Financial Times International
January 25, 2011
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"Who Killed the Economy"
Op-ed, Newsweek International
January 23, 2011
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"The Economy Needs a Bit of Ingenuity"
Op-Ed
The New York Times
August 7, 2010
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"Commentary: Revoultionary Times, Then and Now"
Capitalism and Society
Volume 3, Issue 3, Article 5
2009
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"The Road to Prosperity and Sound Markets"
Project Syndicate
December 8, 2009
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"A fruitless clash of economic opposites"
Financial Times
November 2, 2009
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"Getting Serious about Job Creation: Part 1"
By Aaron Edlin and Edmund Phelps
"The Economists' Voice"
Berkeley Electronic Press
April 27, 2009
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"Uncertainty bedevils the best system"
Financial Times
April 15, 2009
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"Rewarding Work"
Hopes for the Obama Presidency
The Wall Street Journal
January 21, 2009
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"Does Capitalism Have a Future?"
Project Syndicate
December 1, 2008
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"The Right Way to Rebuild Georgia"
Real Clear World
November 12, 2008
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"Keynes had no sure cure for slumps"
Financial Times
November 4, 2008
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"Dear Mr. President"
Newsweek
October 22, 2008
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"We must not rely only on the rosiest ratings"
By Roman Frydman, Michael Goldberg and Edmund Phelps
Fiancial Times
October 19, 2008
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"We Need to Recapitalize the Banks"
Wall Street Journal
October 1, 2008
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"In search of a more dynamic economy"
Financial Times
Monday, June 21st, 2008
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"Our Uncertain Economy"
The Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 14th, 2008
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'A strategy to help Afghanistan kick its habit'
with Graciana del Castillo
Financial Times
Friday, January 4th, 2008
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'Innovative thinking for European business'
Financial Times
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
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"Vilifying Remarks Misrepresent Rawls's Ideas"
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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"The Road to Post-War Recovery"
with Graciana del Castillo
Project Syndicate
July 2007
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"Pas de 'bonne vie' sans travail"
Le Monde
February 26, 2007
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"Entrepreneurial Culture:
Why European Economies Lag Behind the U.S."
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, February 12th, 2007
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"Evidence-Based Economics"
Project Syndicate
October 2006
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"Dynamic Capitalism:
Entrepreneurship is Lucrative - and Just."
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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"Subsidies that Save"
Project Syndicate
May 2006
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'Global change needs flexibility, not a fixed rule'
Financial Times
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
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"Remedies for New Orleans"
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 10th, 2005
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"The Way We Live Now"
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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"Crash, Bang, Wallop"
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, January 5th, 2004
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"The Dynamism of Nations"
Project Syndicate
December 2003
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"False Hopes for the Economy --
And False Fears"
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003
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"European Myths, European Realities"
Project Syndicate
November 2002
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"Structural Booms"
Project Syndicate
April 2001
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"The Economic Case Against Bush's Tax Cut"
Project Syndicate
February 2001
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"The unproven case for tax cuts"
Financial Times
February 2, 2001
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"Low Inflation, Low Unemployment. What Gives?"
Wall Street Journal
April 2000
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"Refitting the West's Winning Economic Model"
Project Syndicate
March 1997
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"Scapegoating the Natural Rate"
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, August 6th, 1996
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