George Akerlof

1940 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawrenceville School, Sidwell Friends School

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Global Economy Prize, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fisher-Schultz Lecture

position held: professor, president

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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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)