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...

George Akerlof's paper The Market for Lemons introduced a model to help explain a variety of market outcomes when quality is uncertain. Akerlof's primary...

the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. Four of his PhD students, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, and William Nordhaus, later received...

asymmetric information in markets. The paper was written in 1970 by George Akerlof and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The paper's findings...

November 25, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2013. Akerlof, George (October 10, 2001). "George A. Akerlof Biographical". nobelprize.org. Archived from the...

is the market for used cars with hidden flaws, also known as lemons. George Akerlof in his 1970 paper, "The Market for 'Lemons'", highlights the effect...

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press (2015), ISBN 978-0-691-16831-9...

follow-up to their Think Small advertising campaign for VW. Economist George Akerlof in his 1970 paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the...

Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (2009) is a book by economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller written to promote the understanding of the role...

September 29, 2024. "The Market for Lemons", 1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof Interview with John J. Woodcock III of West Hartford, Connecticut. Woodcock...