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George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof, an American economist. Laureate for the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2001. In "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism", published in Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1970 he coined the term "Lemon" for a used car with hidden defects.

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List of economists
List of economics consultancies and think tanks

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