Nobel laureates Robert J. Shiller and George Akerlof discuss their new book “Phishing for Phools.” They explain how free market forces lead some people to manipulate and deceive others and why ...

George Akerlof and Robert Shiller’s (Nobels in economics) book, titled Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception declares on its first page that people “do not.

George Akerlof is a New Keynesian economist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. He is renowned for his 1970 paper, The Market for Lemons, Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism.

OPINION 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists claim Trump will wreck our economy. This is the reason I don't trust them One of the first signatures comes from George Akerlof, a 2001 Nobel laureate who ...

Yellen, 77, and her husband, economist George Akerlof, stopped by a Giant Food store in Washington, DC, after grabbing lunch at Japanese restaurant Raku. 10.

When Janet Yellen and George Akerlof arrived at the Fed in the fall of 1977, the place was a mess, and its leader, Arthur Burns, was on his way out the door.

George Akerlof shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with A. Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz for research into asymmetric information. Solutions to Asymmetric Information .