Judges are Mohamed A. El-Erian, Kristin J. Forbes, Deborah J. Lucas, Robert C. Merton, Ronald P. O’Hanley, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Raghuram R. Rajan, and Robert Zoellick.

The $200,000 prize, the first ever awarded by MIT in the area of financial policy, will be given biennially starting in the spring of 2020.

Words and ideas that stood out this year.

Six illustrations and photos we loved this year.