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- NAME: Edward C Prescott
- OCCUPATION: Economist
- BIRTH DATE: December 26, 1940 (Age: 72)
- EDUCATION: Swarthmore College, Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Mellon University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Glens Falls, New York
- ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn
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Economist Edward C. Prescott won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics for his study of central bank policy and business cycles.
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Born on December 26, 1940, Edward C. Prescott attended Swarthmore College, Case Western Reserve University and Carnegie Mellon University. He returned to Carnegie Mellon to teach in 1971, where he met co-author Finn E. Kydland. Together and separately, they developed theories on central bank policy and business cycles that earned them the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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