Economics
Ideas and insights about economics from MIT Sloan.
The top 10 MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter articles of 2025
They’re nearly all about artificial intelligence, with a guest appearance from quantum computing.
Who benefits from AI? New comic explores technology’s impact on labor
Download “Power and Progress: The Mini-Comic!” for free. A new comic book adapts MIT Nobel Prize-winning economists’ work on how AI affects workers and shared prosperity.
New book explores the economic limits of a moral life
Two economists offer a framework for thinking about the place of values in the decisions of modern life.
A new look at the economics of AI
MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu predicts that artificial intelligence will have a “nontrivial, but modest” effect on GDP in the next decade.
Nobel winners propose fixes for democracy’s ’tough stretch’
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson say good jobs and the equitable deployment of technology can help restore people’s faith in democratic institutions.
Insights from MIT’s newest Nobel laureates on AI, labor, and more
Institute professor Daron Acemoglu and MIT Sloan professor Simon Johnson have examined economic growth, digital advertising, and the Russian oil cap.
‘Doughnut economics’: 4 questions for industry leaders
Economist Kate Raworth offers a framework to guide global development, government policy, and corporate strategy in the 21st century.
Meet the 6 new faculty members joining MIT Sloan in 2024
The academics and researchers joining MIT Sloan in 2024 are experts in economics, management, organizational studies, and more.
5 ‘extraordinary turnarounds’ for global well-being
Earth4All calls for a reconfiguration of economies, energy, and food systems to increase societal resilience and avoid the worst climate change impacts.
‘Climate capitalism’ can help scale green solutions
Reforming capitalism might be the only practical way to get to zero emissions quickly, says Bloomberg reporter Akshat Rathi.