Akerlof nobel biography

American economist (born )

George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, ) 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.^[2][3] Akerlof was awarded the 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 TreasuryJanet Yellen.

Early life and education

Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 17, , into a Jewish family. His mother was Rosalie Clara Grubber (née Hirschfelder), a housewife of German Jewish descent, and his father was Gösta Carl Åkerlöf, a chemist and inventor, who was a Swedish immigrant.^[4][5][6] George has an older brother, Carl, a physics professor at the University of Michigan.^[6&