George Akerlof
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Arthur Akerlof 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. Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
George Akerlof's Published Works
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- An economic theorist's book of tales: The market for “lemons”: quality uncertainty and the market mechanism (1970) (9308)
- Economics and Identity (2000) (4961)
- Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange (1982) (3205)
- The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment (1990) (2094)
- Identity and the Economics of Organizations (2005) (1587)
- A theory of social custom, of which unemployment may be one consequence (1980) (1509)
- Social Distance and Social Decisions (1997) (1361)
- The Economic Consequences of Cognitive Dissonance (1982) (1275)
- The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation (1996) (1236)
- Procrastination and Obedience (1991) (954)
- The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales (1976) (911)
- A Near-Rational Model of the Business Cycle (1985) (908)
- Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market (1986) (880)
- Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education (2002) (875)
- Animal spirits : how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism : with a new preface by the authors (2010) (865)
- Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (1994) (751)
- Gift Exchange and Efficiency-Wage Theory: Four Views (1984) (684)
- Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior (2002) (610)
- Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being (2010) (586)
- Near-Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long-Run Phillips Curve (2000) (543)
- Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U (1988) (518)
- An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States (1996) (514)
- The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics (2007) (508)
- Can Small Deviations from Rationality Make Significant Differences to Economic Equilibria (1985) (503)
- The Economics of "Tagging" as Applied to the Optimal Income Tax (1978) (489)
- Fairness and Unemployment (1988) (407)
- East Germany in from the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union (1991) (383)
- Identity Economics (2010) (336)
- An economic theorist's book of tales (1984) (292)
- Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market: Introduction (1986) (236)
- Identity, Supervision, and Work Groups (2008) (176)
- How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters (2009) (164)
- Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (2015) (141)
- 15 – THE MARKET FOR “LEMONS”: QUALITY UNCERTAINTY AND THE MARKET MECHANISM* (1978) (139)
- Workers&Apos; Trust Funds and the Logic of Wage Profiles (1988) (138)
- The Implicit Contract Theory of Unemployment meets the Wage Bill Argument (1980) (130)
- Path dependence, its critics and the quest for 'historical economics' (2002) (128)
- Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market. (1988) (116)
- Unemployment spells and unemployment experience (1980) (104)
- Rational Models of Irrational Behavior (1987) (98)
- Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics (2020) (98)
- An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Durations (1981) (98)
- THE ECONOMICS OF ILLUSION (1989) (97)
- Unemployment Through the Filter of Memory (1985) (96)
- Discriminatory, Status-based Wages among Tradition-oriented, Stochastically Trading Coconut Producers (1985) (80)
- Do Deferred Wages Dominate Involuntary Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device? (1986) (77)
- Bread and Bullets (2016) (71)
- Readings in the economics of contract law: The market for “lemons”: quality uncertainty and the market mechanism (1982) (71)
- Men Without Children (1998) (68)
- Gang Behavior, Law Enforcement, and Community Values (2013) (66)
- Stabilization Policy: A Reconsideration (2006) (64)
- The Case Against Conservative Macroeconomics: An Inaugural Lecture (1979) (63)
- ADVERSE SELECTION (2007) (63)
- What Have We Learned?: Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis (2014) (57)
- Relative Wages and the Rate of Inflation (1969) (55)
- Near-Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Optimal Rates of Inflation and Unemployment (2000) (52)
- Measures of Unemployment Duration as Guides to Research and Policy: Reply [An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Duration] (1983) (51)
- Irving Fisher on his Head: The Consequences of Constant Threshold-Target Monitoring of Money Holdings (1979) (51)
- Capital, Wages and Structural Unemployment (1969) (50)
- The Short Run Demand for Money (1980) (47)
- Unfinished Business in the Macroeconomics of Low Inflation: A Tribute to George and Bill by Bill and George (2008) (44)
- The Demand for Money: A General-Equilibrium Inventory-Theoretic Approach (1973) (36)
- Jobs as Dam Sites (1981) (33)
- Do Deferred Wages Eliminate the Need for Involuntary Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device (1990) (32)
- Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'": A Personal and Interpretive Essay (2003) (29)
- Persistence of false paradigms in low-power sciences (2018) (28)
- Low Inflation or No Inflation: Should the Federal Reserve Pursue Complete Price Stability? (1996) (21)
- Irving Fisher on His Head II: The Consequences of the Timing of Payments for the Demand for Money (1980) (20)
- Structural Unemployment in a Neoclassical Framework (1969) (18)
- Pitfalls in Markov Modeling of Labor Market Stocks and Flows (1981) (16)
- Explorations in Pragmatic Economics (2005) (16)
- BALANCED GROWTH-A RAZOR'S EDGE?* (1967) (15)
- Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market: Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange (1986) (15)
- New Calculations of Income and Interest Elasticities in Tobin's Model of the Transactions Demand for Money (1978) (11)
- Explorations in pragmatic economics : selected papers of George A. Akerlof (and co-authors) (2005) (11)
- An economic theorist's book of tales: The economics of caste and of the rat race and other woeful tales (1984) (10)
- Inflation and Unemployment in the U.S. and Canada: A Common Framework (2002) (10)
- An economic theorist's book of tales: A theory of social custom, of which unemployment may be one consequence (1984) (9)
- What They Were Thinking Then: The Consequences for Macroeconomics during the Past 60 Years (2019) (9)
- The Short-Run Demand for Money: A New Look at an Old Problem (1982) (9)
- New Mothers, Not Married: Technology Shock, the Demise of Shotgun Marriage, and the Increase in Out-of-Wedlock Births (1996) (8)
- Beetles: Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief (2017) (7)
- The New Case for Keynesianism (2007) (7)
- Waiting for Work (1990) (7)
- The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment Author ( s ) : (2008) (6)
- Reply to Professor Heal (1976) (6)
- Manipulation and Deception as Part of a Phishing Equilibrium (2016) (5)
- Markets with Asymmetric Information 2 More speci (2001) (5)
- Paul A. Samuelson: A Personal Tribute and a Few Reflections (1982) (4)
- An economic theorist's book of tales: Labor contracts as partial gift exchange (1984) (4)
- Economics of Identity (2014) (3)
- Comment on "Household Debt in the Consumer Age: Source of Growth--Risk of Collapse" (by Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari) (2008) (3)
- Animal Spirits or Complex Adaptive Dynamics? A Review of (2009) (3)
- Low Inflation or No Inflation (1996) (3)
- Substitution in a general equilibrium framework (1970) (3)
- Inflationary Tales Told by Static Models: The Case of Price Setters (1976) (2)
- An economic theorist's book of tales: Loyalty filters (1984) (2)
- Interview with the 2001 Laureates in Economics, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001) (2)
- The questions of coinage, trade credit, financial flows and peanuts : a flow-of-funds approach to the demand for money (1975) (2)
- TWO. Identity Economics (2010) (1)
- Regulation of Interstate Wine Shipments (2004) (1)
- EIGHT. Race and Minority Poverty (2010) (1)
- SIX. Identity and the Economics of Education (2010) (1)
- Ekonomija identiteta: Kako naši identiteti oblikuju naš rad, plaće i blagostanje (2016) (1)
- FIVE. Identity and the Economics of Organizations (2010) (1)
- The microeconomic foundations of a flow of funds theory of the demand for money (1978) (1)
- Virginia v. Sebelius - Economics Professors Amicus Brief (2011) (1)
- Centre-state fiscal relations in India (2019) (1)
- Bread and Bullet (2016) (1)
- An economic theorist's book of tales: Jobs as dam sites (1984) (1)
- An economic theorist's book of tales: Introduction (1984) (1)
- A theory of involuntary unemployment (1978) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OPTIMAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE OVER THE BUSINESS CYCLE (2014) (0)
- Centre-state fiscal relations in India (2019) (0)
- Bread and Bullets by George A. Akerlof and Dennis J.Snower (2016) (0)
- THREE. Identity and Norms in Utility (2010) (0)
- SEVEN. Gender and Work (2010) (0)
- A new theory of unemployment (1975) (0)
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Pooled Observations: An Example from labor Economics (1980) (0)
- Economics and identity: Moving beyond the doctrine of selfishness [videorecording] (2008) (0)
- NINE. Identity Economics and Economic Methodology (2010) (0)
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Resistance and Its Heroes (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. Advertisers Discover How to Zoom In on Our Weak Spots (2015) (0)
- AFTERWORD. The Significance of Phishing Equilibrium (2015) (0)
- Taxability and the Social Contract (2003) (0)
- CHAPTER TEN. Michael Milken Phishes with Junk Bonds as Bait (2015) (0)
- TEN. Conclusion, and Five Ways Identity Changes Economics (2010) (0)
- James A. Mirrlees, William S. Vickrey, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz (2010) (0)
- Appendix B . Extensions of the Model We analyze three extensions of our model : tenure committees (2018) (0)
- On Making Economics Realistic (2002) (0)
- Frontrunning the signals: As arbitrage between sophisticates (2021) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR .Rip-offs Regarding Cars, Houses, and Credit Cards (2015) (0)
- FOUR. Where We Fit into Today’s Economics (2010) (0)
- Election 2004: Fiction vs. Reality (2004) (0)
- General discussion (1971) (0)
- An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales China Edition (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. Temptation Strews Our Path (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. Phishing in Politics (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. Reputation Mining and Financial Crisis (2015) (0)
- Book Notes “Economics and Social Sciences” 1/2016 (2016) (0)
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Innovation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2015) (0)
- Eating Each Other's Eggs and the Persistence of False Belief (2016) (0)
- American Economic Association Procrastination and Obedience (2007) (0)
- NO . 29 Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya (2001) (0)
- What Have People Been Thinking? Animal Spirits Macroeconomics with and without Animal Spirits (2009) (0)
- The sensitivity of monetarist conclusions to monetarist assumptions: constant lag versus constant target-threshold monitoring (1978) (0)
- (UQVW)HKUDQG/RUHQ)*RHWWH (1999) (0)
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment (2004) (0)
- You have printed the following article : Asymmetric Price Adjustment and Economic Fluctuations (2007) (0)
- INTRODUCTION. Expect to Be Manipulated: Phishing Equilibrium (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX. Phood, Pharma, and Phishing (2015) (0)
- POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER THREE. A Rosetta Stone (2010) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NOMINAL WAGE RIGIDITY IN VILLAGE LABOR MARKETS (2014) (0)
- Manipulation and Deception as Part of a Phishing Equilibrium (2016) (0)
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Tobacco and Alcohol (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER NINE. Bankruptcy for Profit (2015) (0)
- CONCLUSION: EXAMPLES AND GENERAL LESSONS. New Story in America and Its Consequences (2015) (0)
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