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Bill Phillips (economist)
New Zealand economist (–)
Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE (18 November – 4 March )[1] was a New Zealand economist who spent most of his academic career as a professor of economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
He invented the Phillips curve of economics in He also designed and built the MONIAC hydraulic economics computer in
Early life
Phillips was born at Te Rehunga near Dannevirke, New Zealand, to Harold Housego Phillips, a dairy farmer, and his wife, Edith Webber, a schoolteacher and postmistress.[1] A mechanical aptitude began to emerge at an early age: at fifteen, Bill learned how to fix a motor vehicle engine, how to wire a shed for electrical lighting, build radios, and create a crude form of cinematography.[2]
He left New Zealand before finishing school to work in Australia at a variety of jobs, including crocodile hunter and cinema manager.[3] In Phillips headed
