MIT, the same institution that produced one of this year's Nobel prize winners in economics, has introduced a new blended "micromasters" program that can help people earn their master's degree in data ...

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), announced its 15th Innovative ...

Aidan Toner-Rodgers, 27, sprung to the upper tiers of economics as a graduate student late last year from virtually out of nowhere. While still taking core classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

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 ...

Economists from Harvard and MIT shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday morning. Harvard’s Oliver Hart, a 68-year-old, London-born economics ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Paul Samuelson, whose work helped form the basis of modern economics, died on Sunday in his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He was 94. His death was announced ...