Talk:Natural rate of unemployment

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[edit] "Phillips curve" or "Phillips-curve"?

Sometimes there is confusion about whether there should be a hyphen or not. To the best of my knowledge, there is none in a sentence like "This is a Phillips curve;" i.e., where the terms takes the form of a noun. However, when the term is used as an adjective, the hyphen should be there; as in "This is a Phillips-curve correlation". I am not a native English speaker, but beieve me, an economics journal editor once gave me that advice.--HJensen, talk 11:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Wow. That is a fascinating distinction! However now I'm wracking my brain trying to recall how many times I've made that error through the years. Thank you for teaching me something!--Palabrazo 22:42, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. And I still constantly make the confusion myself. Good thing the hyphen is silent so you don't notice in oral presentations! :-)--HJensen, talk 11:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of sources

Where is definition from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.164.125.199 (talk) 11:59, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Friedman and Phelps. See Footnote 1, 4 and 5. --HJensen, talk 21:07, 24 November 2007 (UTC)