"This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "Phelps volume," Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, a book that is often credited with pioneering the currently dominant approach to macroeconomic analysis....

Biographical note: Roman Frydman is professor of economics at New York University and the coauthor (with Michael D. Goldberg) of "Beyond Mechanical Markets" and "Imperfect Knowledge Economics". Edmund S. Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is director of Columbia...

Macroeconomics would not be what it is today without Edmund Phelps. This book assembles the field's leading figures to highlight the continuing influence of his ideas from the past four decades. Addressing the most important current debates in macroeconomic theory, it focuses on the rates at...