Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy ...
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the ...
Starr Forum: Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis May 07, 2012 http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_050712_galbraith.html About The Speakers: James Galbraith is professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, ...
Research & Policy Design: Part II
Research & Policy Design: Part II
Research and Policy Design: The First J-PAL Bihar Development Conference In Part II, Guyanendra Badgaiyan (former Director of J-PAL South Asia) introduces J-PAL South Asia and speaks on the importance and benefits of impact evaluations.
Research & Policy Design: Part I
Research & Policy Design: Part I
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 ...
The Emergence of a Digital Money Ecosystem - Irving ...
The Emergence of a Digital Money Ecosystem - Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD ...
About the Presentation We are in the early stages of a very important transformation—the transition to a digital money ecosystem. This transformation is likely to be among the most exciting, important, and challenging initiatives the world will undertake in the ...
Gruber's comic book on health care
MIT economist Gruber clarifies health care law in a comic book
Gruber, a key architect of Massachusetts health reform, uses a visual, comic book-style narrative to make the case for the national health law.
Caroline Woolard, "SolidarityNYC, OurGoods.org, and Trade ...
Caroline Woolard, "SolidarityNYC, OurGoods.org, and Trade School"
April 5, 2012 - Civic Media LunchCaroline Woolard speaks about her work with SolidarityNYC, OurGoods and Trade School, two barter economies for cultural production. OurGoods.org connects artists, designers, and craftspeople to trade skills, spaces, and objects to ...
A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment ...
A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer ...
MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar SeriesNicholas A. Ashford, PhD., JDProfessor of Technology and PolicyDirector, MIT Technology and Law ProgramDate: March 19, 2012 At present, national and global reforms are focused on improving the financial system, which is not ...
Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
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 ...
A Conversation about Economic Inequality
Minding the Gap: A Conversation about Economic Inequality
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.
Studying scientists with Pierre Azoulay
Studying scientists with Pierre Azoulay
Pierre Azoulay, an economist at MIT Sloan, studies how life scientists work - or, more precisely, what makes them work well.
Dynamic Economic Systems
Dynamic Economic Systems
Conversation with Nicholas Ashford, a professor of technology and policy in MIT's School of Engineering.
Opening Up the Problem Space — Government's Role
Opening Up the Problem Space — Government's Role
Conversation with Nicholas Ashford, a professor of technology and policy in MIT's School of Engineering.
Reinventing the City @ MIT: Economics and the Sustainable ...
Reinventing the City @ MIT: Economics and the Sustainable City
Economics and the Sustainable City Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:00-7:00pm MIT 3-133 Three urban economists discuss how economic principles will help cities to create a smaller environmental footprint. David Albouy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of ...
Promoting Inclusion
Promoting Inclusion
Aryeh Neier spoke to the MIT community about the worldwide work of the Open Society Foundations to secure education, health and justice for marginalized people. Aryeh Neier is president of the Open Society Foundations. Prior to joining the Open Society Institute in 1993, he served for 12 ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...