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Melissa Dell, a Harvard economics professor, studies how historical institutions continue to shape modern economies. Her work on forced labor in Peru and military strategy in Vietnam shows how to isolate cause and effect across centuries and use deep learning to digitize historical archives.
Matthew Yglesias, a journalist and author, focuses on economic policy, housing, and political strategy. He argues that expanding housing, energy, and infrastructure can drive growth, connecting abundance to demographics, popularist messaging, and the mechanics of building a more abundant society.
Mark Carney, who led the central banks of Canada and England, coined the “Tragedy of the Horizon” to explain why markets struggle with climate change’s systemic financial risks. His work probes the gap between market prices and human values.
Luigi Zingales, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, studies finance, economics, and politics. His distinction between pro-market and pro-business policies illuminates how competition, regulatory capture, and rent-seeking affect growth and democratic institutions.
Larry Summers, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary, National Economic Council director, and Harvard University president, revived secular stagnation to explain persistent low growth and interest rates. His views on fiscal policy and technological change reveal how he reads the modern economy.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a British-Ghanaian philosopher, examines the social fictions that divide people and the obligations owed to strangers. His cosmopolitanism asks why labels endure, how moral revolutions happen, and how a shared world can survive deep disagreement.
Kim Bowes, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist and historian, studies the everyday lives of the Roman poor. Using material evidence from the Roman Peasant Project and domestic sites, she reconstructs how the vast majority of Romans actually lived.
Joseph Stiglitz, an economist, showed how unequal information between buyers and sellers can make markets fail. His work traces how this imbalance drives inequality, enables monopoly extraction, weakens democracy, and makes policy choices central to building a fairer system.