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George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Learn about the life and achievements of George A. Akerlof, the American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information. Read his biography, family background, education, and career highlights.
George A. Akerlof. Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics; Nobel Laureate 2001. Fields. Macroeconomics, Monetary theory, Behavioral Economics. Current Status. Emeritus. PhD. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966. Research Interests.
George Akerlof is an American economist who won the Nobel Prize for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information. He studied at Yale and MIT, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
Nov 14, 2003 · by George A. Akerlof 2001 Laureate in Economics. I wrote “The Market for ‘Lemons,'” (a 13-page paper for which I was awarded the Prize in Economics) during my first year as assistant professor at Berkeley, in 1966-67. * “Lemons” deals with a problem as old as markets themselves.
Sep 7, 2022 · Learn about George Akerlof, a New Keynesian economist and Nobel laureate for his theory of markets under asymmetric information. Find out his early life, education, books, and contributions to identity economics and the fair wage-effort hypothesis.
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Professor Akerlof is a 2001 recipient of the Alfred E. Nobel Prize in Economic Science; he was honored for his theory of asymmetric information and its effect on economic behavior.
