John Moore (economist)

John H. Moore
Born7 May 1954 (1954-05-07) (age 71)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge
London School of Economics
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh School of Economics
London School of Economics
Doctoral studentsTore Ellingsen
AwardsYrjö Jahnsson Award (1999)
Stephen A. Ross Prize (2010)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2020)
Website

John Halstead Hardman Moore CBE FBA FRSE (born 7 May 1954) is an economic theorist. He was appointed George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics in 2000. In 2018 he was appointed the David Hume University Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.