Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Arthur Brown
- Preface by Robert Leeson
- Part I Bill Phillips: Some Memories and Reflections
- 1 A. W. H. Phillips: An extraordinary life
- 2 The versatile genius
- 3 To be his colleague was to be his friend
- 4 Phillips' adaptive expectations formula
- 5 Economist – washing machine fixer
- 6 Playing around with some data
- 7 The Festschrift
- Part II The Phillips Machine
- Part III Dynamic Stabilisation
- Part IV Econometrics
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
6 - Playing around with some data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Arthur Brown
- Preface by Robert Leeson
- Part I Bill Phillips: Some Memories and Reflections
- 1 A. W. H. Phillips: An extraordinary life
- 2 The versatile genius
- 3 To be his colleague was to be his friend
- 4 Phillips' adaptive expectations formula
- 5 Economist – washing machine fixer
- 6 Playing around with some data
- 7 The Festschrift
- Part II The Phillips Machine
- Part III Dynamic Stabilisation
- Part IV Econometrics
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
Summary
This brief note had its genesis over thirty years ago when, along with my now deceased husband, I had the pleasure of meeting Bill Phillips at a conference in San Francisco in December of 1966. He had just given the Econometric Society's Walras-Bowley Lecture. For some reason or another he was standing all alone in the lobby of the hotel - casually watching the world go by would, I think, describe it fairly accurately. Anyway, I had the temerity to introduce myself. He was charming. We visited with him a total of six or eight hours on at least three different occasions - once in the lobby, once in his room, and once in ours. He was a most interesting person, and a very pleasant ‘regular guy’. There was not the slightest hint of condescension. He chatted and joked as if we had been friends for years. A very impressive person, not just as an economist, but as a man.
Of course, I'm not reconstructing from thirty years ago without help. In 1979 I put down some of these thoughts as the preface to a paper on ‘Mr Phillips and His Curve’. And that is jogging my memory now. In any event, most of the conversations were not about economics - we talked about children, his and ours, education, Australia, New Zealand, the American Midwest, all sorts of things.
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