GEORGE A. AKERLOF

2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.

• Born: June 17, 1940
• Place of birth: New Haven, CT
• Residence: USA
• Affiliation: University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Address:
    Department of Economics
    University of California, Berkeley
    549 Evans Hall #3880
    Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
    USA
  • Telephone: 510-642-0822
  • E-mail: akerlof@econ.berkeley.edu
• Education:
  • Yale University , B. A. 1962
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph. D. 1966

• An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales by George A. Akerlof (1984)
• Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market by George A. Akerlof (Editor), Janet L. Yellen (Editor) (1986)
• Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment by Yoram Weiss, Gideon Fishelson (Editor)
• Other Books by George A. Akerlof

• Prize co-recipient: A. Michael Spence
• Prize co-recipient: Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Akerlof's Home Page at Berkeley
• Official award announcement and background
• Information on research from the Nobel Foundation
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• Autobiography (submitted by Martin)
• George Akerlof nació en New Haven (submitted by dareth)
• About George A. Akerlof . (submitted by Donna)
• George A. Akerlof Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• George Akerlof - Biography (submitted by Lukas)
• Wikipedia entry (submitted by Anonymous)

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