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George Akerlof. George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a Distinguish University Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. [2] [3] Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic ...
Apr 25, 2024 · George A. Akerlof is an American economist who, with A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundation for the theory of markets with asymmetric information. Akerlof studied at Yale University (B.A., 1962) and the Massachusetts Institute.
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About George A. Akerlof. George Akerlof was educated at Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his PhD in 1966, the same year he became an assistant professor at Berkeley. He became a full professor in 1978.Professor Akerlof is a 2001 recipient of the Alfred E. Nobel Prize in Economic Science; he was honored for ...
George A. Akerlof Biographical . F amily background I was born on June 17, 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut. My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. They had met ten years earlier at a departmental picnic when my mother had been a chemistry graduate student at Yal
George Akerlof’s research often draws from other disciplines, such as psychology, anthropology and sociology. He played an important part in the development of behavioral economics. His study of markets with asymmetric information concentrated on those in which the sellers of a product have more information than buyers about the product’s ...
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.
BERKELEY — George A. Akerlof, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was named the 2001 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences today (10/10/01). It is the second consecutive year in which the Nobel has gone to a UC Berkeley economist. Akerlof, described by a colleague as "a citizen of the profession," is ...
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