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George A. Akerlof

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001

Interview

Interview with the 2001 Laureates in Economics, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, December 12, 2001. Interviewers are Professor Karl-Gustaf Löfgren and Anne-Sophie Crepin, graduate student, Umeå University.

The Laureates talk about why they started studying economics, assymetric information (5:16), their current research (13:02) and the implementation of their research (20:17).
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