- Paul Sultan
Paul Sultan is a labour economist, born in 1924 in
Vancouver , Canada, and currently residing inEdwardsville, Illinois .Education
After serving as an aircraft pilot during WWII for the
Royal Canadian Air Force , he pursued an academic career atCornell University , theUniversity of Buffalo ,Claremont Graduate School in California,UCLA ,Simon Fraser University and the University of Southern Illinois.Writings
His early text, "Labour Economics" [Sultan, Paul (1957), "Labor Economics", New York: Henry Holt and Company.] , pioneered the relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate, now known as the Phillips Curve. Paul has written five books and hundreds of articles, monographs and position papers. In recognition of his work in labour-management relations he was honoured in 1997 through being admitted to the Southwestern Illinois Labour Management Hall of Fame.
References
* [http://www.gatewaylabormanagement.org/Award%20Winners.html "The Labor and Management Hall of Fame"]
* [http://ei.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol6/issue4/index.dtl "Oxford Journals"]
* [http://ideas.repec.org/s/bla/econom5.html "London School of Economics and Political Science"]
* [http://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedrer/y1985isep-octp17-24nv.71no.5.html "The early history of the Phillips curve"]
* [http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp008.pdf#search=%22paul%20sultan%20phillips%20curve%22 "European Central Bank"]
# Sultan, Paul (1957), "Labor Economics", New York: Henry Holt and Company.
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