For penetrating analysis and insights on urban economics and the city as an engine of growth
Edward L. Glaeser
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
For research on income and wealth inequality and its consequences
Thomas Piketty
Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics, Paris
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California
Gabriel Zucman
Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics and Ecole Normale Supérieure – PSL; Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California
For understanding the determinants of economic opportunity and identifying policies to increase social mobility
Raj Chetty
William A. Ackman Professor of Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts