George A. Akerlof
Economist and Nobel laureate
George A. Akerlof is an American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is the author of Phishing for Phools.
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American Born 1940 in New Haven, United States
About George A. Akerlof
George Arthur Akerlof was born on June 17, 1940, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is an American economist who spent much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus. He is also a university professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. In 2001 he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, for their work on markets where the parties hold unequal information. Besides Phishing for Phools, he has coauthored Animal Spirits with Robert Shiller. He is married to Janet Yellen, a former US Secretary of the Treasury.