For over a century, the Department of Economics at MIT has played a leading role in economics education, research, and public service. The department offers exceptional opportunities for undergraduate and graduate study and research.
Jürgen Schlangenotto joined BNP PARIBAS in September 2008 as managing director, corporate and investment banking taking care of the portfolios of a number of major German DAX-Companies. BNP Paribas is the largest bank in the Euro Zone by total assets and second ...
Abdullatif A. Al-Othman is Saudi Aramco's senior vice president of finance business line, which covers the controllers, treasurers, and the general auditing functions. Abdullatif talks here about how the financial crisis has affected his business and the Middle East. ...
Manuel Sosna is one of the three founders of ubitexx GmbH and was responsible for finance, key account management and marketing from 2002 to April 2009. Now he supports ubitexx, among other companies, as a management consultant. Manuel talks here about how the ...
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max ...
Panel discusses what’s the right price for a college education? And what is its value?
At an MIT forum, economists suggested America's growing wealth gap matters for an overarching reason that's slightly harder to quantify: Inequality, they said, constitutes a threat to America's values and political system.
Gruber, a key architect of Massachusetts health reform, uses a visual, comic book-style narrative to make the case for the national health law.
MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Welcome Deborah K. Fitzgerald - Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Moderator Ricardo Caballero PhD '88 - Ford Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT ...
Nobel Prize in Economics Press Conference with winner Peter Diamond
Nobel Prize in Economics Press Conference with winner Peter Diamond
Held on April 10, 2010 in honor of Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson.
Research & Policy Design: The First J-PAL Bihar Development Conference In Part I, Iqbal Dhaliwal (Director of Policy, J-PAL Global) introduces J-PAL's history and mission, discusses the need for evaluations in the development field and the different types of evaluations, and covers policy ...
