John Moore (economist)
John H. Moore | |
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| Born | 7 May 1954 (age 69) |
| Nationality | British |
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| Institution | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2020) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
John Halstead Hardman Moore
economic theorist. He was appointed George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics in 2000. In 2018 he was appointed the David Hume University Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics
, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.
Education and career
Moore obtained a
Ph.D. in Economics at the LSE in 1984. At the LSE he was appointed Lecturer in Economics in 1983, Reader in Economics in 1987, and Professor of Economic Theory in 1990. In 2000 he was appointed to the George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Moore has held visiting positions at the
Review of Economic Studies
, 1987–91. He was the first Director of the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics from 2006 to 2009. In 2018, he was appointed David Hume University Chair of Economics at the University of Edinburgh and School Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics.
Research contribution
He is known for his contribution to the Grossman–Hart–Moore theory of property rights and the Kiyotaki–Moore model of credit cycles.
Honours and awards
Moore was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1989, of the British Academy in 1999, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003, and of the European Economic Association in 2004. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association. Moore was the 2010 President of the Econometric Society. Moore is the President of the Royal Economic Society now (2015–2017).
Moore was the recipient of the 1999
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Economics, Finance and Management".[3]
He was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to economics.[4]
References
- ^ "Queen's Birthday Honours". Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ The age of expansion at the Edinburgh School of Economics. Accessed February 24, 2013.
- ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 2020
- ^ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B9.
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