Robert Akerlof is a professor in the School of Economics.  He is a co-editor at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, deputy director of the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics, a core member of ERINN (Economic Research on Identity, Norms, and Narratives), and a research affiliate of CEPR (the Centre for Economic Policy Research).  He received his PhD from Harvard, where he was a Presidential Scholar.  His main areas of research are sociology and economics, cognition, organizational economics, and applied microeconomic theory.

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