The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 20: Savings

This lecture covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Bannerjee

The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 10: Is It Possible to Deliver ...

This lecture discusses various experiments and interventions in education, specifically in India. The work of the organization, Pratham, is also covered. Instructor: Esther Duflo

The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 12: (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox ...

This lecture discusses what drives fertitlity decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Instructor: Esther Duflo

MIT Sloan Experts | Innovating Beyond GDP

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer on how there is mounting discontent with GDP as the main indicator of social and economic progress.

MIT Sloan Experts | Health care cost cuts and patient outcomes

A brief presentation by Joseph Doyle, associate professor of applied economics.

'Could a Shorter Workweek and a Greener Economy Provide Relief?'

About the Presentation The crises we encounter today could be described as a 'perfect storm.' The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has left many people with too little money and/or willingness to spend. This results in too few goods and services being ...

Addressing Complexity in the Interconnected World

How can we manage the financial crisis? How do civil unrest, religion and rumors spread, and how is that related to epidemics and earthquakes? Can human behavior and societal systems be studied in the same way as biological systems and complex man-made systems? In this ...

Chock full of fun: The Laboratory for Chocolate Science

Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science is a student club dedicated to the appreciation of chocolate in all its myriad forms.

Alice Amsden Commemoration - Part 1

Alice Amsden Commemoration - Part 3

Alice Amsden Commemoration - Part 4

Alice Amsden Commemoration - Part 5

The continued economic decline of the West

Has the age of 2% annual growth in jobs and salary levels come to an end in the West? Will the jobs drain to the East quicken? Are policymakers leading us away from the precipice or towards it? Often contrarian, Jon Moynihan's lecture draws on his decades of experience ...

MIT Sloan Finance Day - Issues from the Financial Crisis: Credit Risk and ...

MIT Sloan Finance Day: Financial Markets in Transition Welcome RemarksDean David Schmittlein, John C Head III DeanIssues from Financial Crisis: Credit Risk and Financial GuaranteesRobert C. Merton, School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance

MIT Sloan Finance Day - Financial Reform Panel Discussion

MIT Sloan Finance Day: Financial Markets in Transition Panel Discussion: Financial Reform Moderator: Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance Panelists: Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics Bennett Golub, Co-Founder and ...