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Bill Phillips

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Bill Phillips
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Bill Phillips was the son of a dairy farmer. In the Second World War he was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp where he built and operated a secret radio. After the war he studied at the London School of Economics. In 1949 he built a machine (the MONIAC) of clear plastic with coloured water flowing through it to model the working of the British economy. A paper he published in 1958, which showed a link between inflation and unemployment, became one of the world’s most widely-cited articles in...

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Date created
18 May 2010
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LSE Archives
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22321/bill-phillips

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