NBER profile: Jeffrey M. Perloff.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief Article

Jeffrey M. Perloff joined the NBER's Board of Directors last fall as the representative of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is a Fellow of that organization, and a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Perloff holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976-80 before joining the Berkeley agricultural economics faculty. He was promoted to full professor in 1989.

Perloff's research on industrial organization, labor, trade, marketing, law and economics, psychology, and other topics has been widely published in professional journals. He is the author of a textbook on microeconomics and the coauthor (with Dennis...