More on AWH Phillips

Bill Phillips' orginal handworked calculations for his paper on the Phillips Curve comprise the background to this website.

Brian Easton's article in the New Zealand Listener 12-18 July 2008 "Modest Achiever" compares Bill Phillips to Edmund Hillary and Ernest Rutherford and suggests that he should be honoured alongside them on New Zealand banknotes.

Alan Bollard discusses Bill Phillips and the MONIAC on Radio New Zealand on 8 July 2008 in Our Changing World and on 9 July 2008 on Nights.

The NZ Herald article on 9 July 2008 "The man behind the money machine" discusses Bill Phillips' contribution to economics.

On 9 July 2008 Bernard Hickey discusses Alan Bollard's reminiscences on the MONIAC “I found it a real pig of a thing to work” on the blog Interest.co.nz.

The National Business Review discusses the conference in honour of Bill Phillips on 3 July 2008 "RBNZ honours NZ crocodile hunter turned economist"

On 15 June 2008 in "Old Embers, New Flames" the Economic Principals blog discussed the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conference on Cape Cod the previous week to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Phillips curve. 

In the Dominion Post on 14 June 2008 "Honouring a Kiwi genius", James Weir profiles Bill Phillips. 

Robert Leeson discusses "Phillips vs. Friedman: the Back Story" on the Wall Street Journal blog Real Time Economics on 11 June 2008.

The Guardian discusses "The computer model that once explained the British economy" on Thursday May 8 2008. This article has been cited by The SCSU scholars who discuss "Economic Hydraulics" on May 8 2008 and by Chris Higgins in Mental Floss "Modeling Economics Using Water" on 9 May 2008.

The Mostly Economics blog of 17 March 2008 asks the question  "Why wasn’t Alban William Phillips given a Nobel Prize?"

The December 2007 edition of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin has an artice on the MONIAC "Introducing the MONIAC: an early and innovative economic model".

Nicholas Barr authored an article in the LSE Magazine "Bill Phillips: A Life Less Ordinary" in Winter 2007.

Nicolai Foss discusses "The Phillips Machine" on the Organisations and Markets blog on 2 November 2007.

The Engineering Department at Cambridge University restored one of the original Phillips machines "A Wonderful Thing is the Phillips Machine" in 2003.

Listen to the BBC programme on Bill Phillips' computer "Water on the Brain" in its series on Electronic Brains broadcast in 2002.

Doron Swale discusses The Phillips Economic Computer in Resurrection, the Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society and in "When Money Flowed Like Water" in Inc Magazine in 1995.

Brian Easton discusses AWH Phillips and his life in his column in the New Zealand Listener on 18 November, 1978.

Fortune magazine featured Bill Phillips' machine in "Economics in Thirty Minutes" in March 1952.

The Econometric Society (Australasian Region) has a short biography of AW Phillips.

The History of Economic Thought website has an entry on AW Phillips and on Inflation and the Phillips Curve.

Kevin Hoover discusses the Phillips Curve in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

Wikipedia has entries on William Phillips, the Phillips Curve and the MONIAC.

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has a replica of the MONIAC on loan to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand which has a display on Bill Phillips in its museum. The Science Museum in London has Phillips' Economic Computer on display.

Bill Phillips' Financephalograph records a visit to the Science Museum and the impression the MONIAC made on the writer.

Pictures of Phillips' Economic Computer 1949 (the MONIAC) are available from the Science and Society Picture Library.