Emmanuel Saez

Emmanuel Saez
Saez in 2019
Born (1972-11-26) November 26, 1972 (age 51)
Spain
NationalityFrench
American
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic career
FieldPublic economics Economic history
InstitutionUniversity of California, Berkeley
School or
tradition
New Keynesian economics[1]
Doctoral
advisor
James M. Poterba[2]
Peter Diamond[2]
InfluencesAnthony Barnes Atkinson
ContributionsResearch on inequality
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal (2009)
MacArthur Fellowship (2010)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Emmanuel Saez (born November 26, 1972) is a French-American economist who is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] His work, done with Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman, 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 marginal tax rates, of up to 70% or 90%.[4] He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2009, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2010, and an honorary degree from Harvard University in 2019.

  1. ^ https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24971/revisions/w24971.rev0.pdf
  2. ^ a b Saez, Emmanuel (1999). Essays on the economics of income taxation (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/38434.
  3. ^ "University of California, Berkeley". Econ.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  4. ^ Annie Lowrey (April 16, 2012). "For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-09-10.