John Hardman Moore

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John Hardman Moore is a British economist and professor at the University of Edinburgh (full time) and the London School of Economics (quarter time).

Moore was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 1989 and he was the recipient of the 1999 Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association, awarded biennially to the best European economist under the age of 45. He shared the prize with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki.

He is among others famous for the Kiyotaki-Moore model of credit cycles which shows how small shocks to the economy might be amplified into large output fluctuations through credit restrictions.