George Akerlof

George Akerlof
Akerlof in 2007
Born
George Arthur Akerlof

(1940-06-17) June 17, 1940 (age 83)
EducationYale University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouses
  • Kay Leong
    (m. 1974; div. 1977)
  • (m. 1978)
Children1
RelativesCarl W. Akerlof (brother)
Academic career
InstitutionGeorgetown University
London School of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
School or
tradition
New Keynesian economics
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Solow[1]
Doctoral
students
Charles Engel
Adriana Kugler
InfluencesJohn Maynard Keynes
ContributionsInformation asymmetry
Efficiency wages
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisWages and capital (1966)

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.[2][3] Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."

  1. ^ Akerlof, George (1966). Wages and capital (PDF) (Ph.D.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
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