George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof is an American economist and a university professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, as well as Koshland Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for most of his career. He shared the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on markets with asymmetric information, beginning with his 1970 paper The Market for Lemons. He was a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 1973-74 and later a visiting scholar at the IMF.