George A. Akerlof
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George A. Akerlof
Fellow: Awarded 1973
Field of Study: Economics
Competition: US & Canada
University of California, Berkeley
Spouse: Janet L. Yellen, Guggenheim Fellow in Economics, 1986
Nobel Prize, Economics, 2001
National Academy of Sciences , 2003