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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.
Biographical. 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. My father, who was born in Sweden in 1898, had come ...
Apr 25, 2024 · George A. Akerlof (born June 17, 1940, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) 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.
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 his theory of asymmetric information and its effect on economic behavior. He is also the 2006 President of the American Economic Association.
George A. Akerlof. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001. Born: 17 June 1940, New Haven, CT, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”. Prize share: 1/3.
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 · George Akerlof is a New Keynesian economist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. He is renowned for his 1970 paper, The Market for Lemons, Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism....
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. He is also the 2006 President of the American Economic Association where he served earlier as vice president and member of the executive committee.
Bio and Featured Works. George Akerlof is University Professor at Georgetown. His research is based in economics, but it often draws from other disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, and sociology. He played an important role in the development of behavioral economics.
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. George A. Akerlof, UC Berkeley Professor of Economics. Peg Skorpinski photo.
