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.
CIS's Précis examines research, student work
Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.
Tech support?
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Eli Shapiro dies at 94
The school’s first associate dean, he helped guide MIT Sloan in the years after its founding.
Billion Prices Project: Introducing real-time economics
MIT Sloan faculty project to track inflation in real time collects prices from hundreds of worldwide online retailers on a daily basis.
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.
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
Public debt concentrated in advanced economies, MIT student’s research finds
Global financial crisis highlights gulf between advanced and emerging nations.
3 Questions: Michael Greenstone on deficit spending
As deficit hawks appear poised for victory at the polls, the MIT economics professor presents the case for more spending on infrastructure and R&D.