Economist Daron Acemoglu has been named Institute Professor at MIT, the highest distinction for faculty members.

Research from Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu and co-authors looks at different forms of automation and how the US tax system has led to excess reliance on machines.

"We need to look to the past in the face of modern innovations in machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, and beyond," says the economist.

They mostly want to change the world, not just fathom it

Six MIT faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Stephen Bell, Sangeeta Bhatia, Christopher Cummins, Esther Duflo, Klavs Jensen, and Nergis Mavalvala.

MIT economist David Donaldson’s study shows how railroads helped India grow — and how better transport can help us now.

Google’s chief economist uses math to model behavior.

Compelling ideas for narrowing the economic divide.

Nikhil Agarwal, Andrew Lawrie, Yufei Zhao, and Daniel Harlow recently received 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships. This year’s cohort brings MIT’s total to nearly 300 fellows — more than any single...

Daron Acemoglu, Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Kristin Bergmann, Kerri Cahoy, Catherine Drennan, Colette Heald, Caroline Jones, Jesse Kroll, Gene-wei Li, Anna Mikusheva, Gigliola Staffilani, and Lawrence...

Richard “Dick” Eckaus, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, emeritus, has died at 96. Eckaus was a deeply respected educator and mentor, and a founding member of the MIT Joint...

An interview with John Van Reenen of MIT

Top executives don’t always know what’s going on at the operations level.

One of the nation's top economists explores the past and future of work in cities. He finds that opportunities for workers without a college degree are drying up.

From automation to China, the economist has forced a reassessment of how labour markets respond to disruption

MIT faculty Netta Engelhardt, Manya Ghobadin, Phillip Isola, Simon Jäger, Long Ju, Lisa Sauermann, and Daniel Suess win prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships for early-career researchers from the...

Dense cities have long promised higher wages, but now that is primarily true for workers with more education, a new analysis finds.

Once the escalator to the middle-class, big cities are now failing less-educated black and Hispanic workers

MIT is launching its Task Force on the Work of the Future, to study jobs and employment in an age of technological change.

In profile: MIT economist David Atkin looks beneath the surface of global commerce.

The first cohort of 22 students from 14 countries graduated from a new program at MIT with master's degrees in data, economics, and development policy.

A newly published study co-authored by an MIT economist provides evidence that economic problems may often have smaller points of origin and then spread as part of a network effect.

The Economics Department's symposium included three panel discussions that largely focused on major policy issues in the Trump era.

Kofi Blake, Orisa Coombs, Jierui Fang, Max Kessler, Claire Lazar Reich, and Kyle Swanson from MIT were named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars and will pursue funded graduate studies at Stanford Univer...

Faculty from six MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.

President Biden wants universal pre-K. A large new study examines its likely effects.

Teasing logic from the glorious mess of human interactions and transactions

Indonesia had a program to provide subsidized rice to the poor. But thousands of kilos didn't make it to the recipients.