Edmund Phelps

I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.