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Akerlof earned his B.A. in economics at Yale in 1962 and his Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1966. For most of his professional life, he has been an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1973–1974, he was a senior economist with President Richard M. Nixon’s Council of Economic Advisers; from 1978 to 1980, he was ...
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 his theory of asymmetric ...
Sep 7, 2022 · George A. Akerlof: A winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, for his theory of information asymmetry as expressed in his famous 1970 paper, "The ...
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GEORGE A. AKERLOF AND RACHEL E. KRANTON. This paper considers how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes. We incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior. In the utility function we propose, identity is associated with different social categories and how people in these ...
Nov 22, 2022 · When Janet Yellen and George Akerlof arrived at the Fed in the fall of 1977, the place was a mess. Its leader, Arthur Burns, was on his way out the door. Inflation was running rampant.
George Arthur Akerlof (New Haven, 17 de junho de 1940) é um economista estadunidense, professor de economia na Universidade de Berkeley. Seu pai era sueco e sua mãe judia estadunidense. Foi laureado com o Prémio de Ciências Económicas em Memória de Alfred Nobel de 2001, juntamente com Michael Spence e Joseph Stiglitz ).
