1940 - Today
George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist who is 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. He won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Michael Spence and Joseph E. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Akerlof has received more than 737,756 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). George Akerlof is the 76th most popular economist (up from 92nd in 2019), the 1,057th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,151st in 2019) and the 22nd 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 76 out of 315. Before him are Robert Lucas Jr., Harry Markowitz, Tansu Çiller, Cornelius Castoriadis, Robert Mundell, and Trygve Haavelmo. After him are Reinhard Selten, Richard Thaler, James Mill, James M. Buchanan, Edmund Phelps, and John Harsanyi.
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 70
1927 - Present
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 71
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 72
1922 - 1997
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 73
1932 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 74
1911 - 1999
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 75
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 76
1930 - 2016
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 77
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 78
1773 - 1836
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 79
1919 - 2013
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 80
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 81
1920 - 2000
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 82
Among people born in 1940, George Akerlof ranks 74. Before him are Óscar Arias, Dietmar Hopp, Mario Andretti, Astrud Gilberto, Gudrun Ensslin, and James Brolin. After him are Paolo Borsellino, Al Jarreau, Milena Dravić, Joachim Frank, Fatema Mernissi, and Marlène Jobert.
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 68
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 69
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 70
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 71
1940 - 1977
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 72
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 73
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 74
1940 - 1992
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 75
1940 - 2017
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 76
1940 - 2018
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 77
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 78
1940 - 2015
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 79
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 80
Among people born in United States, George Akerlof ranks 1,057 out of 15,968. Before him are Whitey Bulger (1929), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Clyde Drexler (1962), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Burton Richter (1931), and James Brolin (1940). After him are Allen Dulles (1893), John Young (1930), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Winona Ryder (1971), Gerald Edelman (1929), and Lyonel Feininger (1871).
1929 - 2018
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 1,051
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 1,052
1962 - Present
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 1,053
1923 - 2015
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 1,054
1931 - 2018
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 1,055
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 1,056
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 1,057
1893 - 1969
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 1,058
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,059
1834 - 1903
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,060
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,061
1929 - 2014
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,062
1871 - 1956
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 1,063
Among economists born in United States, George Akerlof ranks 22. Before him are Charles Cooley (1864), Murray Rothbard (1926), Theodore Schultz (1902), Robert Solow (1924), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), and Harry Markowitz (1927). After him are Richard Thaler (1945), James M. Buchanan (1919), Edmund Phelps (1933), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Douglas McGregor (1906), and Alan Greenspan (1926).
1864 - 1929
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 16
1926 - 1995
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 17
1902 - 1998
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 18
1924 - Present
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 19
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 20
1927 - Present
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 21
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 22
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 23
1919 - 2013
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 24
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 25
1927 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 26
1906 - 1964
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 27
1926 - Present
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 28