MIT’s third president, Francis Amasa Walker, understood the power of numbers. A leading economist, he directed the 1870 and 1880 U.S. censuses and founded the American Economic Association. He knew ...

Looking to craft a strategy for integrating AI into your organisation? It’s not about replacing jobs with robots but about using technology to boost efficiency. This six-week online course from MIT ...

MIT, a global leader in education, offers over 2,000 free online courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative. Highlighting ten of the best courses, including topics like computational thinking, ...

Alumni from the third cohort of students in the J-PAL/MIT Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s program reflect on why they chose the program and share what they have found to be most ...

Goodbye, Chicago boys. Hello, MIT gang. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the term "Chicago boys" was originally used to refer to Latin American economists, trained at the University of ...

If the world economy has got Davos, Switzerland, as its stage this week, the U.S. economy has Cambridge. Some of the world's top economists — including half a dozen Nobel Prize winners — gathered at ...