Book review: a few hares to chase: the economic life and times of Bill Phillips by Alan Bollard

LSE economist and inventor Bill Phillips became world famous for The Phillips Curve. Yet, as A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips shows, Phillips’s time at the London School of Economics was only one chapter in an extraordinary life. Alan Bollard evidences the breadth of Phillips’s talents in a thought-provoking and meticulously researched biography that will help readers appreciate the full extent of Phillip’s legacy, writes Jenny McArthur.