<p>Edmund Phelps, a professor at Columbia University and Amherst graduate won the Nobel Prize in Economics today. He is the fourth Amherst grad to have won a Nobel Prize.
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Nobel-Economics.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Nobel-Economics.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin</a></p>
<p>I wonder if he's letting any lucky undergrad help him spend his $1.4 million, lol.</p>