George Akerlof
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George Akerlof (1940- )graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale in 1962, and received a PhD from MIT in 1966. He is a respected American economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Akerlof, with Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for "their analyses of markets with asymmetric information". He serves as a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security. He presented The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics as his Presidential Address to the American Economic Association on January 6, 2007.
Bibliography
Akerlof, George, and Janet Yellen. 1986. Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market. Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press.
Akerlof, George. 2002. Autobiography. [1]
