John Halstead Hardman Moore

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(born 7 May 1954) is an

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. He was appointed George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at the

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in 2000. In 2018 he was appointed the David Hume University Professor at the

. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the

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, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.

Education and career

Moore obtained a

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in Mathematics at

Fitzwilliam College Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...

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in 1976, an

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in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the

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(LSE) in 1980, and a

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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. Moore has held visiting positions at the

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and

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. Between 1997 and 2000, he was a professor of economics at the

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. He was a Managing Editor of the ''

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'', 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

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in 1989, of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

in 1999, of the

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in 2003, and of the

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in 2004. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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and the

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. Moore was the 2010 President of the

. Moore is the President of the Royal Economic Society now (2015–2017). Moore was the recipient of the 1999

Yrjö Jahnsson Award Yrjö, a masculine Finnish given name that is the equivalent of George, may refer to: * Yrjö von Grönhagen, (1911–2003), Finnish anthropologist * Yrjö Jylhä, (1903–1956), Finnish poet * Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959), Finnish compo ...

of the

. He shared the prize with

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (born June 24, 1955) is a Japanese economist and the Harold H. Helms '20 Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. He is especially known for proposing several models that provide deeper microeconomic foundations for macroecon ...

. In 2010, Kiyotaki and Moore won the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics for their 1997 paper "Credit Cycles" in the

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. In 2020 he was awarded the

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in the category "Economics, Finance and Management". He was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to economics.

References

External links

John Moore's Homepage

University of Edinburgh homepage
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