Topic
Social sciences
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The social life of data
New Data and Society course engages students in the ethics and societal implications of data.
June 8, 2020 -
Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality
Job-replacing tech has directly driven the income gap since the late 1980s, economists report.
May 5, 2020 -
Robots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle
Study finds manufacturing companies that are quick to automate can thrive, but overall employment drops.
May 5, 2020 -
How many jobs do robots really replace?
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation.
May 4, 2020 -
Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Longtime professor played a major role in encouraging MIT to ask new questions that significantly broadened the Institute’s educational mission.
April 18, 2020 -
Mesoamerican copper smelting technology aided colonial weaponry
Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found.
March 31, 2020 -
3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery
MIT professor evaluates the effect of government stimulus on the crisis-hit U.S. economy.
March 30, 2020 -
Why are workers getting smaller pieces of the pie?
Market concentration in the form of “superstar” firms has been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds.
March 10, 2020 -
The case for economics — by the numbers
A multidecade study shows economics increasingly overlaps with other disciplines, and has become more empirical in nature.
March 3, 2020 -
Thirty-eight exceptional MIT students named 2020 Burchard Scholars
Students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills at dinner-seminars with MIT faculty.
February 25, 2020 -
MIT launches master’s in data, economics, and development policy, led by Nobel laureates
The first cohort of 22 students from 14 countries share a common ambition: harnessing data to help others.
February 4, 2020 -
Hospital rankings hold up
Some basic metrics do effectively diagnose care quality, according to MIT economists.
January 30, 2020 -
Blood and politics in India
New book explores the use of blood in political rhetoric, imagery, and activism, and even the politics of blood drives.
January 21, 2020 -
Study uses physics to explain democratic elections
U.S. elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.
January 21, 2020 -
When machine learning packs an economic punch
Study: After eBay improved its translation software, international commerce increased sharply.
December 20, 2019 -
Technology and Policy Program launches Research to Policy Engagement Initiative
Initiative will support efforts to inform policy with scientific research.
December 5, 2019 -
Economics for hard times
In new book, Nobel laureates Banerjee and Duflo examine what we know about the global economy and how to improve it.
November 11, 2019 -
Investigating the power of group think
Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.
November 7, 2019 -
MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win Nobel Prize
Professors share prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University, are cited for breakthrough antipoverty work.
October 14, 2019 -
Computing and artificial intelligence: Humanistic perspectives from MIT
How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.
September 24, 2019