Emmanuel Saez
Emmanuel Saez (born November 26, 1972 ) is a French economist . Saez is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley . He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1999.
research
Saez works on wealth and income inequality as well as income taxes . He put the top earners in the focus of his research. His research on the distribution of wealth and income led to theories of Great Compression and Great Divergence . His research gave impetus to research on the ideal distribution of wealth . Together with Facunda Alvaredo , Anthony Barnes Atkinson and Thomas Piketty , he is working on the World Top Income Database as part of this research .
Awards
- 2009: John Bates Clark Medal
- 2010: MacArthur Fellowship
- 2010: Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France
- 2010: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2014: Horst Recktenwald Prize
Works
- with Camille Landais and Thomas Piketty: Pour une Révolution Fiscale: Un Impôt sur le Revenu pour le XXIème Siècle . Le Seuil, 2011, ISBN 2-02-103941-2 ( website ).
- The Triumph of Injustice: Taxes and Inequality in the 21st Century, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3518429358
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CV , March 2017 (English)
- ↑ The "Great Divergence" (PDF; 227 kB)
- ↑ The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective (PDF; 178 kB)
- ^ Prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2010. lecercledeseconomistes.fr, May 18, 2010, accessed on December 9, 2015 (French).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Saez, Emmanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1972 |