# Edmund Phelps

> Edmund Phelps is a startup investor at Columbia University (New York). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Columbia University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/columbia-university)
- Location: New York, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-phelps-376090a

Edmund Phelps is a Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. Work can be seen as a programme to put people back into economic models despite their incomplete information and imperfect knowledge. Applies this perspective to unemployment, business swings, inclusion and economicdynamism. New book, Mass Flourishing, credits the growth of productivity and human flourishing that sprouted up in the West over the 19th century to indigenous innovation in the business sector sparked by new social values. Honours include: China's Friendship Award (2014); International Federation of Finance Museums' Lifetime Contribution Award (2015); Nobel Laureate in Economics (2006).

## About Columbia University

VC Fund · New York, United States

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. Columbia University is an ivy league school. The University recognizes the importance of its location in NewYork City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the University to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

5 contacts available at Columbia University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Califano | Founder of the Department of Systems Biology, Director of the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-califano |
| Barry Honig | Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-honig-3 |
| David Kittay | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kittay |
| Edmund Phelps | Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, McVickar Professor of Political Economy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edmund-phelps |
| Glenn Hubbard | Dean & Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-hubbard |

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