Nobel laureate Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us
In Stata Center lecture, the Nobel Prize-winning former MIT professor warns that America is replaying its past economic policy mistakes.
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Carl Kaysen, MIT professor emeritus and national security expert, dies at age 89
As an adviser under President Kennedy, he helped negotiate a key nuclear test ban treaty.
Democracy put to the test
MIT field experiment asks: What happens when people gain the ability to govern themselves?
Q&A with Simon Johnson
MIT’s outspoken bank critic on the state of the financial industry, the need for reform, and the performance of the White House
Medical entrepreneurship, from the bottom up
MIT students aim to bring affordable health care to India’s masses.
Temporary gains
MIT economist finds temporary jobs may actually reduce workers’ income and employment prospects
3 Questions: Lawrence Vale on rebuilding Haiti
An MIT urban design expert explains why devastated cities are nearly always rebuilt — but why Haiti faces special challenges to reconstruction.
3 Questions: Making unemployment work
With large numbers of Americans out of work, economist Ivan Werning suggests some better ways to make unemployment insurance operate
Poverty's researcher
MacArthur Foundation "genius" Esther Duflo, PhD '99, field-tests aid programs to find out which ones work-and why.
Not easy being green
MIT historian Harriet Ritvo explains how a battle to save an English lake helped found modern environmentalism — but might worry greens today
Their infinite wisdom
An MIT historian of science uncovers the saga of the Russian scholars whose mysticism helped them redefine the concept of infinity