Warwick Economics Media Library
Professor George Akerlof 'Phishing for Phools' 11th June 2013
15:01, Tue 23 Jul 2013
On Tuesday 11 June, Nobel Prize-winning economist George A. Akerlof presented his Distinguished Visitor Lecture on 'Phishing for Phools' at the University of Warwick. George A. Akerlof is Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Akerlof is the author of 'The market for lemons: Quality uncertainty and the market mechanism', and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics with Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz in 2001. His most recent work introduces social identity into formal economic analysis, creating the field of 'identity economics'.
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