Energy answer: Blowing in the wind?
MIT researchers say wind power can make sense for utility companies, starting now
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3 Questions: Charles Stewart reads the tea leaves
The head of MIT’s Department of Political Science analyzes Tuesday’s election results and sees reason for concern for Obama and the Democrats
Explained: Monte Carlo simulations
Mathematical technique lets scientists make estimates in a probabilistic world
3 Questions: The euro mess
MIT Sloan economist Kristin Forbes on the recent troubles roiling the international financial markets
Moving in circles
MIT scholar’s new book scrutinizes the successes and failures of a unique government experiment meant to help America’s urban poor.
Pattern seen in governments’ currency policies
Small-time money transfers from migrants shape key decisions on foreign exchange, research shows.
Diamond nominated for Federal Reserve post
MIT economist and Institute Professor is Obama’s choice for the U.S. central bank’s seven-person board of governors.
Esther Duflo wins Clark medal
MIT’s influential poverty researcher heralded as best economist under age 40.
3 Questions: David Jones on heart problems
Physician and historian of medicine explains why bypass surgery is popular even though it fails to help many patients.
An altered state
As Mexico’s violence persists, an MIT scholar says a solution must address the economic dislocations tied to the country’s rapid urbanization.
The deep roots of inequality
MIT economics student’s study of Peru shows how practices from hundreds of years ago can influence prosperity today. ‘Pathbreaking,’ says a Harvard economist.
Friends, family gather to honor Paul Samuelson
At memorial service, Nobel-winning economist’s ‘warmth, wit and humility’ are recalled.
Using plants to purify canal water
Researchers outline a natural way to clean Italy's polluted Pontine Marshes
‘Failure is good’
In a talk to promote his new book, MIT’s Simon Johnson lambastes a finance industry he sees as lacking a healthy fear of losing money.
A manufacturing renaissance for America?
At an MIT forum, experts examine new ways to pursue a good old idea: making things.