Emmanuel Saez. Emmanuel Saez (born November 26, 1972) is a French and American economist who is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] His work, done with Thomas Piketty, includes tracking the incomes of the poor, middle class and rich around the world. Their work shows that top earners in the United States have taken an increasingly larger share of overall income over the last three decades, with almost as much inequality as before the Great Depression.
He recommends much higher taxes on the rich, up to 70% or 90%.[2] He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2009 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010. Awards[edit] John Bates Clark Medal[edit] He was the recipient of the 2009 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to "that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge MacArthur Fellow[edit] Research[edit] Personal[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born June 13, 1954) is a globally renowned Nigerian economist best known for her two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria (her current position) and for her work at the World Bank, including several years as one of its Managing Directors (October 2007–July 2011). She briefly held the position of Foreign Minister of Nigeria in 2006. In 2007, Okonjo-Iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.[1][2] Subsequently, in 2012, she became one of three candidates in the race to replace World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the end of his term of office in June 2012.[3][4][5] On April 16, 2012 it was announced that she had been unsuccessful in her bid for the World Bank presidency, having lost to the US nominee, Jim Yong Kim.
Education and personal life[edit] Career[edit] Prior to her ministerial career in Nigeria, Okonjo-Iweala was vice-president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group. Non-profit work[edit] Paul Collier. Sir Paul Collier, CBE (born 1949) is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony's College. From 1998 – 2003 he was the director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. In 2010 and 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.[1][2] Collier currently serves on the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).
Career[edit] The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (ISBN 0195311450), has been compared[3] to Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty and William Easterly's The White Man's Burden, two influential books, which like Collier's book, discuss the pros and cons of developmental aid to developing countries. His 2010 book The Plundered Planet[6][7][8][9][10] is encapsulated in his formulas: Nature - Technology + Regulation = Starvation, Esther Duflo. Esther Duflo (French: [dyflo]; born October 25, 1972) is a French economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is an NBER Research Associate,[2] serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD),[3] and is Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's development economics program.[4] Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation.
Together with Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Michael Kremer, John A. List, and Sendhil Mullainathan, she has been a driving force in advancing field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics. Education[edit] Awards[edit] Other professional activities[edit] Publications[edit] References[edit] Hernando de Soto (economist) Hernando de Soto (born June 2, 1941 in Lima) is an economist from Peru. He has become known for what he wrote and said on the Informal economy and property rights. In his books, de Soto says that an economy cannot go past the stage of a subsistence economy if there is not a formal system of owning property (land or goods). Developing countries have informal ownership since no formal certificate says that land or goods really belong to a certain person. De Soto thinks the capitalist economies of the United States developed because they had a clear system of owning property.
For the United States, the formal system of owning property came from it being a colony of England. Japan's formal system came after the Second World War. De Soto also argues that government bureaucracy greatly hinders the ability for people to hold private property, for example: Thus entrepreneurs are driven to form "underground" economies, but de Soto points out the serious disadvantages: Thomas Sowell writes: Jeremy Rifkin | The Foundation on Economic Trends. Marc Fleurbaey.
Claudia Senik. Thomas Piketty. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Thomas Piketty Thomas Piketty à l'université Harvard à Cambridge dans le Massachusetts Après avoir joué un rôle majeur dans la fondation de l'École d'économie de Paris, il y est aujourd'hui professeur. Il est également directeur d'études à l'EHESS. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Jeunesse et formation (1971-1993)[modifier | modifier le code] Il s'oriente alors vers l'étude des sciences économiques. Parcours (depuis 1993)[modifier | modifier le code] Sa thèse achevée, il enseigne de 1993 à 1995 au Massachusetts Institute of Technology. En 2005, Dominique de Villepin lui confie la création d'une nouvelle institution universitaire française « capable de rivaliser avec la London School of Economics »[5]. Il a été le compagnon d'Aurélie Filippetti qui, en 2009, porte plainte contre lui pour violences conjugales.
En 2012, le magazine anglo-saxon Foreign Policy le sélectionne parmi les cent intellectuels les plus influents[9].