MIT’s Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s offers an affordable, flexible path for aspiring economists.

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.

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed and others fail.

MIT economics graduates are leaders in business and government and currently head the central banks of the United States, Chile, Israel, Italy, and Cyprus. Making Theory Relevant ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with MIT economics professor David Autor about how outdated U.S. government technology contributed to fraud in pandemic aid, like the Paycheck Protection Program.

MIT has introduced a new blended 'micromasters' program that can help people earn their master's degree in data, economics and development policy.

Specialization and trade are the key to economic prosperity argues Arnold Kling in an important new book, Specialization and Trade: A Re-Introduction to Economics. Kling has important insights ...

MIT economics professor David Autor and president and CEO of Y Combinator Garry Tan join Washington Post Live to discuss how the next phase of the artificial intelligence revolution could impact ...

So what distinguishes MIT economics, and why does it matter? To answer that question, you need to go back to the 1970s, when all the people I've just named went to graduate school.

Here's a shocker: a student enrolled in a joint MBA/JD program at Harvard, armed with an economics degree from MIT and work experience at McKinsey & Co., had trouble getting an interview to intern ...

Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke earned his Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1979. He wrote a dissertation entitled, "Long-term Commitments, Dynamic Optimization, and the Business ...