University of Chicago’s Raghuram Rajan, coauthor of SAVING CAPITALISM FROM THE CAPITALISTS: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity, gets a nod for his new work on “Capital Insurance.”

Princeton political scientist Larry M. Bartels earned a mention for findings from his book UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age about the surprising relationship between policy decisions and income inequality in the entry on the “Federal Reserve Vote.”

New School economist Teresa Ghilarducci is lauded as the face of the “Guaranteed Retirement Account” discussed at length in WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them.

And, last but not least, Yale economist Robert J. Shiller is cited for his work on the “Rising-Tide Tax System” proposal also documented in his 2004 award-winning THE NEW FINANCIAL ORDER: Risk in the 21^st Century.