1940 - Today
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Akerlof has received more than 1,092,653 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). George Akerlof is the 94th most popular economist (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,241st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,056th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Economist.
George Akerlof is most famous for his paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" which discusses how information asymmetry can lead to economic inefficiency.
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Among economists, George Akerlof ranks 94 out of 315. Before him are Richard Stone, Paul Krugman, Eugen Dühring, Lawrence Klein, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Merton Miller. After him are János Kornai, Richard Cantillon, Douglas McGregor, Friedrich von Wieser, John Harsanyi, and William Vickrey.
1913 - 1991
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 88
1953 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 89
1833 - 1921
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 90
1920 - 2013
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 91
1810 - 1858
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 92
1923 - 2000
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 93
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 94
1928 - 2021
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 95
1680 - 1734
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 96
1906 - 1964
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 97
1851 - 1926
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 98
1920 - 2000
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 99
1914 - 1996
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 100
Among people born in 1940, George Akerlof ranks 83. Before him are Lance Henriksen, Marlène Jobert, James Brolin, John Gotti, Joachim Frank, and Astrud Gilberto. After him are Dionne Warwick, Lothar de Maizière, Anthony Fauci, Brian Josephson, Mamnoon Hussain, and Roger Ailes.
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 77
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 78
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 79
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 80
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 81
1940 - 2023
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 83
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 85
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 86
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 87
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 88
1940 - 2017
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 89
Among people born in United States, George Akerlof ranks 1,241 out of 18,182. Before him are Alan J. Pakula (1928), Aaron Burr (1756), Lenny Kravitz (1964), Kim Kardashian (1980), Bill Haley (1925), and Fredric Brown (1906). After him are Jim Lovell (1928), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Geena Davis (1956), Marisa Tomei (1964), Frederick Cook (1865), and Rene Russo (1954).
1928 - 1998
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 1,235
1756 - 1836
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 1,236
1964 - Present
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 1,237
1980 - Present
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 1,238
1925 - 1981
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,239
1906 - 1972
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,240
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,241
1928 - Present
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 1,242
1986 - Present
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 1,243
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 1,244
1964 - Present
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 1,245
1865 - 1940
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 1,246
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 1,247
Among economists born in United States, George Akerlof ranks 27. Before him are Richard Thaler (1945), Harry Markowitz (1927), Edmund Phelps (1933), Paul Krugman (1953), Lawrence Klein (1920), and Merton Miller (1923). After him are Douglas McGregor (1906), Alan Greenspan (1926), William Nordhaus (1941), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), and Eugene Fama (1939).
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 21
1927 - 2023
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 22
1933 - Present
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 23
1953 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 24
1920 - 2013
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 25
1923 - 2000
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 26
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 27
1906 - 1964
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 28
1926 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 29
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 30
1927 - Present
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 31
1939 - 2014
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 32
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 33