Robert Akerlof is Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School.
He is a core member of ERINN (Economic Research on Identity, Norms, and Narratives), a research affiliate of CEPR (the Centre for Economic Policy Research), and a co-editor at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
He received my PhD from Harvard in 2009, where he was a Presidential Scholar.
His main areas of research are cognitive economics, sociology and economics, organizational economics, and applied microeconomic theory. My work focuses, in particular, on the importance of social interaction.