George A. Akerlof's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2001 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information

The King of Clubs coordinate

George A. Akerlof's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on George A. Akerlof. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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George A. Akerlof in the public record

Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information." He is the husband of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 17, 1940. His mother was Rosalie Clara Grubber (née Hirschfelder), a housewife of German Jewish descent, and his father was Gösta Carl Åkerlöf, a chemist and inventor, who was a Swedish immigrant. George has an older brother, Carl, a physics professor at the University of Michigan. Akerlof attended Princeton Day School, before he graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University in 1962, and earned his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1966. His dissertation was titled Wages and Capital under the supervision of Robert Solow, a noted economist who would later receive the Nobel Memorial Prize. After receiving his doctorate, Akerlof joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor of economics, although he taught for only one year before moving to India.

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George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Also on the record

1. In 1967, he spent some time as a visiting professor at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in New Delhi and returned to the United States in September 1968.
2. Akerlof then became an associate professor at Berkeley and voted for a tenure-track position at the university.
3. He also served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1973 to 1974.
4. In 1977, Akerlof spent a year as a visiting research economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. where he met his future wife and coauthor, Janet Yellen.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

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What is George A. Akerlof's birth card?

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