George Akerlof

George Akerlof
Akerlof in 2007
Born
George Arthur Akerlof

(1940-06-17) June 17, 1940 (age 84)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationYale University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouses
  • Kay Leong
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    (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." He is the husband of United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen.

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