George Akerlof: Information, Norms and Identity in the Economics of Motivation

Professor George Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1940, the son of a Swedish-born chemist at Yale. He got his bachelor’s degree at Yale in 1962 and his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1966, in the department of Robert Solow and Paul Samuelson. He then joined the University of Continue reading George Akerlof: Information, Norms and Identity in the Economics of Motivation The post George Akerlof: Information, Norms and Identity in the Economics of Motivation appeared first on Fair Observer .