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.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.