John Sutton (born 10 August 1948) is the

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Professor of Economics at the

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Education

Sutton received his undergraduate education at

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, a graduate degree from Trinity College Dublin, and earned his

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Career

He taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977. He has been a visiting associate professor at Tokyo University, a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and a visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Sutton was also president of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2007. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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and a member of Executive and Supervisory Committee at CERGE-EI in Prague.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, John 20th-century Irish economists Academics of the London School of Economics Fellows of the Econometric Society Alumni of the University of Sheffield 1948 births Living people 21st-century British economists