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Social sciences
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Said and Done
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for November 2010
November 29, 2010 -
MIT students expand their horizons as Burchard Scholars
Program brings together MIT sophomores and juniors with humanities, arts and social sciences faculty for eight elegant dinner-seminars.
November 23, 2010 -
How wise are crowds?
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.
November 16, 2010 -
Explained: Currency wars
Countries are clashing over their currency prices. Why?
November 15, 2010 -
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
November 8, 2010 -
MIT economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel Prize
Honored with two others for work on 'analysis of markets with search frictions'
October 11, 2010 -
Said and Done
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for July 2010
July 7, 2010 -
Said and Done
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences digest for April 2010
April 5, 2010 -
The sound and the query
Why do questions take the form they do? An MIT linguist explains how the noises we make help to shape the sentences we speak.
March 26, 2010 -
Burchard Scholars for 2010 announced
34 MIT undergraduates selected who excel in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
February 3, 2010 -
Said and Done: humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for January 2010
February 1, 2010 -
Said and Done: humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for December 2009
January 4, 2010 -
Nobel-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson dies at age 94
In a career that spanned seven decades, he transformed his field, influenced millions of students and turned MIT into an economics powerhouse
December 13, 2009 -
'Genius' grant for MIT economist
Esther Duflo receives MacArthur Fellowship for transformative work on economic development; has brought field experiments to studies of poverty around the world
September 22, 2009 -
MIT economists see a few bright spots
Six months after panel's initial warnings, 'we're not doomed'
April 1, 2009 -
MIT-trained economists bring pragmatic approach to Obama administration
March 17, 2009 -
Economist Robert C. Merton to receive Muh Award
February 23, 2009 -
Three from MIT named among world's top eight young economists
Survey by The Economist magazine highlights department's strength
January 8, 2009 -
Economists offer up advice to Obama
Solow, Mankiw see promising future, short-term problems
November 14, 2008 -
Candidates' energy policies fuel economist's commentary
A Q&A with MIT Professor Robert Pindyck
August 19, 2008