Young bright economists

Here's the list of eight young economists who are making a big splash in their discipline and beyond, according to The Economist. 

• Jesse Shapiro of the University of Chicago
  
• Roland Fryer of Harvard
  
• Esther Duflo of MIT
  
• Amy Finkelstein of MIT
  
• Raj Chetty recently hired by Harvard from Berkeley
  
• Iván Werning of MIT
  
• Xavier Gabaix of New York University
  
• Marc Melitz of Princeton University
  

"Economics is now defined neither by its subject matter nor by its method" That's why I never understood what it was I was studying.