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Keith Kearnes
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Let $k$ be a commutative ring. Is there a name for those commutative $k$-algebras with the property that every subalgebra is finitely generated? $\ldots$ Where can I read more about them?

The paper

Rogalski, D.; Sierra, S. J.; Stafford, J. T., Algebras in which every subalgebra is Noetherian. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 142 (2014), no. 9, 2983-2990.

introduces the term supernoetherian for a not-necessarily-commutative $k$-algebra $A$ that has the property that all subalgebras of $A$ are both (i) finitely generated and (ii) Noetherian. In the commutative case, when $k$ is a field, (ii) follows from (i) by the Hilbert Basis Theorem, so these are exactly the $k$-algebras asked about here when $k$ is a field. The authors of this paper do observe that, when $k$ is a field, the commutative supernoetherian algebras have Krull dimension at most $1$, but they do not classify them.

Keith Kearnes
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