death_date death_place influenced birth_place school_tradition influences color contributions nationality institution field birth_date image article_title name alma_mater
04 march 1975 auckland paul samuelson robert solow edmund phelps te rehunga near dannevirke neo-keynesian economics irving fisher john maynard keynes darkorange phillips curve new zealand australian national university university of auckland macroeconomics 18 november 1914 professor a.w.h -lrb- bill -rrb- phillips.jpg william phillips -lrb- economist -rrb-
 william phillips london school of economics
william phillips -lrb- economist -rrb-

alban william housego `` a. w. '' `` bill '' phillips , mbe -lrb- 18 november 1914 -- 4 march 1975 -rrb- was an influential new zealand economist who spent most of his academic career at the london school of economics -lrb- lse -rrb- .
his best-known contribution to economics is the phillips curve , which he first described in 1958 .
he also designed and built the moniac hydraulic economics computer in 1949 .
