Why economists got free trade with China so wrong

With the year coming to a close, we're sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025! As U.S. trade with China ...
Harvard Business Review

The Economics of Well-Being

Money isn’t everything. But for measuring national success, it has long been pretty much the only thing (other than, of course, sports). The specific metric that has prevailed since World War II is ...
The Sports Rush

“NFL Will Make $40 Billion Off Their Collusive Cartel”: MIT Economist Explains How the League Is Driving Up TV Costs for Viewers

The National Football League is doing just fine. While other leagues like the NBA and MLB struggle with viewership issues, the NFL continues to report record revenues year after year. Last year, the ...
Indiatimes

MIT’s Master’s in Economics: How much it costs and what financial aid you can get

MIT’s Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s offers an affordable, flexible path for aspiring economists. Students complete online MicroMasters courses before an eight-month in-person ...
International Monetary Fund

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee

Some seemingly great development ideas don’t work out as expected. One that famously flopped was to replace open-fire cooking used by 3 billion of the world’s poorest people with more efficient, less ...
The Hindu

MIT-WPU School of Economics and Commerce launches B.Com Financial Analysis Program

The MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU) has launched its new B.Com Financial Analysis program, with the CFA Institute delegation in attendance. The ceremony highlighted collaborative plans to ...
USA Today

Two MIT professors awarded Nobel Prize in economics. Here's what they studied

Two professors from Massachusetts have been honored with one of the most prestigious awards in the world. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
CBS News

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors share Nobel Prize in economics

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity," the Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...
The Boston Globe

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, both MIT professors, win Nobel Prize

Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...
turnto10

2 MIT professors among recipients of Nobel economics prize

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

2 MIT researchers awarded Nobel memorial prize in economics

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and exploitative ...
The Business Journals

Two MIT professors share Nobel in economics

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A pair of MIT professors have ...