Advantage, Arnaud
Economist Arnaud Costinot studies international trade — and has helped revive interest in economics’ venerable Theory of Comparative Advantage.
MIT historian's book honored
Harriet Ritvo’s "The Animal Estate" named to list of 100 most significant publications by Harvard University Press
Thinking globally
Scholar and administrator Bernd Widdig holds a newly created position at MIT: director of international affairs.
An experiment puts auditing under scrutiny
Unique study reduces pollution in India while calling conventional auditing markets into question.
In search of transparency
Former military analyst and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks on the need for open public discussion of vital issues.
Broadcasting rights
MIT professor Heather Hendershot studies the conservative movement’s strategic use of television through the decades.
Achieving an innovation nation
MIT report emphasizes need to turn U.S. innovation strengths into growth.
Race and class
MIT historian Craig Wilder documents the manifold links between universities and the slave economy in colonial America.
3 Questions: Suzanne Berger on converting innovation into growth
As MIT’s PIE Commission releases its findings on the innovation economy, a focus on finding ways to help new ideas reach the market.
The unknowns surrounding Syria
At MIT, foreign-policy experts discuss the complications of another potential military intervention in the Middle East.
Mappers, modelers and an anthropologist
HASTS doctoral student Tom Schilling is conducting an anthropological study of geology, forestry and First Nations-led mapping and modeling in rural British Columbia.
3 Questions: Christopher Capozzola on the history of chemical-weapons bans
MIT historian discusses the longstanding ‘taboo’ against chemical weapons, and international attempts to eliminate them.
In The World: Mapping the logistics of megacities
New open-source online maps generated by MIT students provide details of urban supply chains.