The visible hand
In MIT talk, Eliot Spitzer defends role of government in regulating markets, claims economy still ‘on the precipice’ of deep problems.
Life on a dollar a day
In Poor Economics, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo open a window into the lives of the world’s poorest people, and suggest new remedies to combat poverty.
Thinking like economists
From funky markets in airfares and hot dogs to the effects of alcohol taxes on drunk-driving fatalities, MIT undergraduates try their hand at economics research.
3 Questions: Liquidity lessons
Economist Bengt Holmstrom on the problems of borrowing and lending in a post-crash world, and the role of government in responding to crises
James Simons on mathematics, common sense and good luck: my life and careers
Presented by School of Science Dean's Colloquium.
Why do some countries’ economies grow faster?
One of the Media Lab’s newest faculty members is adapting the mathematical tools of statistical physics to study development economics.
Economists converge at MIT
Nobel laureates, public intellectuals gather for frank debate on economy, politics and the state of their profession.
Alumni power fuels this week’s MIT150 economics and finance symposium
MIT's strength in economics and finance education is manifest in this week's alumni-rich lineup of panelists.
Abraham Siegel, former Sloan dean, dies at 88
Led the School of Management through a period of strategic growth
The price is right
How a new online tool can help measure inflation as accurately as — and more quickly than — traditional methods.
Tracing families’ escape from poverty
Economist’s study shows how the poor in developing countries become wealthier.
