Playing a new tune
Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics.
Mesoamerican copper smelting technology aided colonial weaponry
Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found.
3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery
MIT professor evaluates the effect of government stimulus on the crisis-hit U.S. economy.
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.
The case for economics — by the numbers
A multidecade study shows economics increasingly overlaps with other disciplines, and has become more empirical in nature.
Thirty-eight exceptional MIT students named 2020 Burchard Scholars
Students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills at dinner-seminars with MIT faculty.
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.
Hospital rankings hold up
Some basic metrics do effectively diagnose care quality, according to MIT economists.
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.
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.
When machine learning packs an economic punch
Study: After eBay improved its translation software, international commerce increased sharply.
Technology and Policy Program launches Research to Policy Engagement Initiative
Initiative will support efforts to inform policy with scientific research.
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.
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.
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.