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(Credit: Porter Gifford)
Dear Colleague,
Harvard’s Lawrence F. Katz sparked two intellectual revolutions in economics. One was to apply economic theories of supply and demand to explain fluctuations in wage inequality. The other was to lead large-scale field experiments involving real people to answer big questions such as the effects of moving to a higher-opportunity neighborhood. Journalist Bob Simison profiles Katz for our People in Economics series in IMF Finance and Development Magazine.
From Nobel laureates to rising stars, F&D's People in Economics series profiles some of the most exciting economists of our time, exploring their key contributions to the discipline's ongoing evolution. Check out our PIE archives.
This article appeared in the December issue of F&D. Read other articles by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Ian Bremmer, Mustafa Suleyman, Anton Korinek, Hélène Landemore, Nandan Nilekani, Tanuj Bhojwani, Gita Gopinath, Robert Horn, Jeremy Wagstaff, Kerry Dooley Young, Eswar Prasad, Christopher Evans, Marika Santoro, Martin Stuermer, Gita Bhatt, Erik Brynjolfsson, Gabriel Unger, Andrew Berg, Chris Papageorgiou, Maryam Vaziri, Daniel Björkegren, Joshua Blumenstock, Anil Ari, Lev Ratnovski, and many more.
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