George Akerlof - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2001
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George Akerlof

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2001
for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
6/17/1940
place of birth
New Haven
Age
86 years
educated at
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1966
  • Yale University
  • Lawrenceville School
  • Sidwell Friends School
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1979
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Economic Association
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
doctoral student
  • Michael Ash
  • Sean Masaki Flynn
  • Wallace E. Hendricks
  • Gil Mehrez
  • Jason Reid Eis
  • Kaku Furuya
  • Lawrence Webster Dwight
  • Stephen Richard Blough
  • Terence Mallon Kennedy
  • Jorge Miguel Streb
  • K. Siobhan Reilly
  • Zhiyong An
  • Alan Kenton Kackmeister
  • Andrea De Michelis
  • David Benjamin Huffman
  • Eirik A. Evenhouse
  • Wei-Kang Wong
  • Mauricio Naranjo
  • Frederic Halsey Rogers
  • Robert Allen Vergun
  • Desiree Nicholette Schaan
  • Vai-Lam Mui
  • Matias Felix Barenstein
  • Jeffrey Vincent Butler
  • Stephen Robert Glenville Jones
  • Ross Milbourne
  • Pascal Michaillat
  • Charles Engel
  • Timothy Cogley
  • Robert J. Shiller
  • Stephen G. Cecchetti
  • Jon Faust
  • Adriana Kugler
  • Paola Giuliano
field of work
  • economics
  • economy
occupation
  • professor
  • economist
position held
  • professor
  • president
employer
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Georgetown University
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