Economics

Alumni power fuels this week’s MIT150 economics and finance symposiumMIT's strength in economics and finance education is manifest in this week's alumni-rich lineup of panelists.

Abraham Siegel, former Sloan dean, dies at 88Led the School of Management through a period of strategic growth

The price is rightHow a new online tool can help measure inflation as accurately as — and more quickly than — traditional methods.

Tracing families’ escape from povertyEconomist’s study shows how the poor in developing countries become wealthier.

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for January 2011

CIS's Précis examines research, student workLate fall edition of the biannual publication now available.

Diamond to receive Nobel at ceremony on Friday

Tech support?Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.

MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Eli Shapiro dies at 94The school’s first associate dean, he helped guide MIT Sloan in the years after its founding.

Billion Prices Project: Introducing real-time economicsMIT Sloan faculty project to track inflation in real time collects prices from hundreds of worldwide online retailers on a daily basis.

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for November 2010

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.

Explained: Currency warsCountries are clashing over their currency prices. Why?

7 win presidential early career honorsMIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.

3 Questions: Michael Greenstone on deficit spendingAs deficit hawks appear poised for victory at the polls, the MIT economics professor presents the case for more spending on infrastructure and R&D.

Elisabeth Reynolds named executive director of the IPC

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for October 2010

MIT cyclists best overall at 2010 Collegiate National Track ChampionshipsFor third consecutive year, team wins Division II Omnium.

MIT economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel PrizeHonored with two others for work on 'analysis of markets with search frictions'

Beyond the bubbleAt Center for Real Estate conference, economists contemplate ways to make the risks of financial innovation more evident.

Explained: Defining recessionsIt’s not what conventional wisdom holds, as an MIT economist — who heads the bureau charged with identifying U.S. downturns — makes clear.

The energy challenge calls on humanities and social-science researchCourses on energy include economics, political science, history, literature and more.

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for September 2010

Explained: Quantitative easingAn unconventional financial tool is getting more attention as the Fed tries to jump-start the U.S. economy

Financial impacts of ‘cap and trade’Analysis shows that, contrary to some claims, proposed legislation to limit carbon emissions would not disadvantage those with lower incomes.

Nobody’s homeMIT economist measures how much foreclosures lower housing prices.

When a little knowledge really is dangerousMIT Sloan professor on the ‘arms race’ between investors trying to understand financial products, and the firms trying to confuse them.