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Edmund Phelps, an Uncommon card
Edmund Strother Phelps was an American economist and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Edmund Phelps quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edmund Phelps card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Phelps was at the University of ______ from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971.
Answer
Pennsylvania. Phelps was at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971. From the Edmund Phelps article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Edmund Strother Phelps was an American economist and the recipient of the ____ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Answer
2000s. Edmund Strother Phelps was an American economist and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. From the Edmund Phelps article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Edmund Phelps. Edmund Phelps 73 · Astrochemistry 70 · Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska 67 · Bob Behnken 64 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Early in his career, he became known for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth.
- His demonstration of the golden rule savings rate, a concept related to work by John von Neumann, started a wave of research on how much a nation should spend on present consumption rather than save and invest for future generations.
- Phelps was at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edmund Phelps article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Edmund Phelps (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cp2960, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
