Andrei Shleifer

Andrei Shleifer (pronounced /ˈʃlaɪfəʁ/) (born February 20, 1961) is a Russian American economist. In 1999, Shleifer was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the most promising US economist under 40, for his seminal works on corporate finance (corporate governance, law and finance), the economics of financial markets (deviations from efficient markets), and the economics of transition. He is currently ranked the second mo... more

Andrei Shleifer (pronounced /ˈʃlaɪfəʁ/) (born February 20, 1961) is a Russian American economist. In 1999, Shleifer was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the most promising US economist under 40, for his seminal works on corporate finance (corporate governance, law and finance), the economics of financial markets (deviations from efficient markets), and the economics of transition. He is currently ranked the second most influential economist in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc, and is listed #1 in the category "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". He was born in Russia to a Jewish family and emigrated to Rochester, New York, as a teenager in 1976, where he attended an inner-city school and learned English from episodes of Charlie's Angels. He then studied economics, obtaining his A.B. from Harvard University in 1982 and Ph.D. from MIT in 1986. As a freshman at Harvard, Shleifer took Math 55 with Brad DeLong; he has said that the course made... less