John Halstead Hardman MooreCBEFBAFRSE (born 7 May 1954) is aneconomic theorist. He was appointed George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at theUniversity of EdinburghSchool of Economics in 2000. In 2018 he was appointed the David Hume University Professor at theUniversity of Edinburgh. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to theLondon School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.

Moore obtained aB.A. in Mathematics atFitzwilliam College,Cambridge in 1976,^[1] anM.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at theLondon School of Economics (LSE) in 1980, and aPh.D. 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.^[2]

Moore has held visiting positions at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology andPrinceton University. Between 1997 and 2000, he was a professor of economics at theUniversity of St Andrews. He was a Managing Editor of theReview of Economic Studies, 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.

He is known for his contribution to theGrossman–Hart–Moore theory of property rights and theKiyotaki–Moore model of credit cycles.

Moore was elected a fellow of theEconometric Society in 1989, of theBritish Academy in 1999, of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh in 2003, and of theEuropean Economic Association in 2004. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and theAmerican Economic Association. Moore was the 2010 President of theEconometric Society. Moore is the President of the Royal Economic Society now (2015–2017).

Moore was the recipient of the 1999Yrjö Jahnsson Award of theEuropean Economic Association. He shared the prize withNobuhiro Kiyotaki. In 2010, Kiyotaki and Moore won the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics for their 1997 paper "Credit Cycles" in theJournal of Political Economy. In 2020 he was awarded theBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Economics, Finance and Management".^[3]

He was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2017 Birthday Honours for services to economics.^[4]

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