George Akerlof
George Akerlof | |
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Akerlof in 2007 | |
| Born | George Arthur Akerlof June 17, 1940 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
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| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Carl W. Akerlof (brother) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Thesis | Wages and capital (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
| Institutions | Georgetown University London School of Economics University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | Charles Engel Adriana Kugler |
| Notable ideas | Information asymmetry Efficiency wages |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) |
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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. 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." He is the husband of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen.