Funding will support workshops to advance research, development, and translation in emerging areas of socioresilient and sustainable infrastructure, and in ocean environments.
Media Lab researcher Kate Turner explores how critical race theory can influence science — and how science can inform policy — as an IDSS Research to Policy Engagement Initiative Fellow.
Christopher Capozzola’s new book examines how military engagement has shaped social connections between the two nations.
MIT Sloan professor says major transformation of labor law and associated policies are needed for improved worker-employer relationships.
PhD student and “organizational ethnographer” Summer Jackson investigates the complex social hierarchies that govern the way we work.
Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades — especially for Black and Latino workers.
New Data and Society course engages students in the ethics and societal implications of data.
Job-replacing tech has directly driven the income gap since the late 1980s, economists report.
Study finds manufacturing companies that are quick to automate can thrive, but overall employment drops.
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation.
Longtime professor played a major role in encouraging MIT to ask new questions that significantly broadened the Institute’s educational mission.
Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found.
MIT professor evaluates the effect of government stimulus on the crisis-hit U.S. economy.
Market concentration in the form of “superstar” firms has been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds.
A multidecade study shows economics increasingly overlaps with other disciplines, and has become more empirical in nature.