Gabriel Zucman

The work. Following hidden wealth through offshore tax havens, estimating how much the rich shelter, and building the distributional national accounts that show who gets what share of growth. Clark Medal, 2023.

The case for. He turned tax evasion from anecdote into a measurable stock and wrote the playbook for a global minimum tax on billionaires.

The case against. Born in 1986. Nobody wins this prize at 40, and his most political proposals are still moving through legislatures rather than through the literature.

The KmikeyM angle. Zucman hunts for wealth that hides from its owners' governments; KmikeyM is the one asset whose owner cannot hide from his own shareholders.