In its inaugural year, BoothHacks brought together 132 student builders, 37 new AI-powered products, and 10 judges for a high-Intensity, high-creativity 48-hour event that showcased the future of ...

The United States has become better known for inventing things than making them. That goes for everything from Apple’s iPhones to Levi’s jeans. Low-cost foreign labor is an obvious reason factories ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

As catastrophic wildfires, hurricanes, and floods roil the planet, investors are increasingly interested in portfolios to hedge the risks associated with climate change. A research team including ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...