Phillip Jacob Nelson (born 1929) is an emeritus professor at

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, where he was Bartle Professor of Economics. He is noted for having been the first to observe the distinction between an

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and a search good. Nelson obtained his doctorate in 1957 from

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, with a dissertation titled "A Study in the Geographic Mobility of Labor".

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;Research articles * * ;Books *..

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