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.

In the book, “Priority Technologies,” MIT faculty analyze how the U.S. can move ahead in multiple key industrial sectors — semiconductors, biotechnology, critical minerals, drones, quantum computing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

High European unemployment is the combined result of economic downturns and protective governmental institutions, MIT Economics Chair Olivier Blanchard told 70 Tufts students and faculty at a lecture ...