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Economics is the study of how people, businesses and governments choose to allocate their resources—from how humans produce things to how they distribute and consume things. Students explore the ...

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In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

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What markets are therefore — rightly — looking for from the Budget is not projections that hit an arbitrary target for ...

When the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issues a statement, it is often to celebrate a Nobel Prize. In the past decade, six of its professors have won the award—as ...