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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.
Family 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 Yale. My brother, Carl, was two years older.
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001 was awarded jointly to George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
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Photo gallery. 1 (of 5) 2 (of 5) A bird's eye view of 2001 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. © Pressens Bild AB 2001, SE-112 88 Stockholm, Sweden, telephone: +46 (0)8 738 38 00. Photo: Jessica Gow. 3 (of 5) All 2001 Nobel Laureates on stage at the Stockholm Concert Hall during the 2001 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
Jun 12, 2024 · George A. Akerlof, 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. Learn more about Akerlof’s life and work.
