Masks mandates have major impact, study finds
Analysis shows requiring masks for public-facing U.S. business employees on April 1 would have saved tens of thousands of lives.
3 Questions: Thomas Kochan on new policies to shape work of the future
MIT Sloan professor says major transformation of labor law and associated policies are needed for improved worker-employer relationships.
Studying the cultures of companies
PhD student and “organizational ethnographer” Summer Jackson investigates the complex social hierarchies that govern the way we work.
The urban job escalator has stopped moving
Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades — especially for Black and Latino workers.
The social life of data
New Data and Society course engages students in the ethics and societal implications of data.
Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality
Job-replacing tech has directly driven the income gap since the late 1980s, economists report.
Robots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle
Study finds manufacturing companies that are quick to automate can thrive, but overall employment drops.
How many jobs do robots really replace?
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation.
Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Longtime professor played a major role in encouraging MIT to ask new questions that significantly broadened the Institute’s educational mission.
Playing a new tune
Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics.
Mesoamerican copper smelting technology aided colonial weaponry
Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found.
3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery
MIT professor evaluates the effect of government stimulus on the crisis-hit U.S. economy.
Why are workers getting smaller pieces of the pie?
Market concentration in the form of “superstar” firms has been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds.
The case for economics — by the numbers
A multidecade study shows economics increasingly overlaps with other disciplines, and has become more empirical in nature.
Thirty-eight exceptional MIT students named 2020 Burchard Scholars
Students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills at dinner-seminars with MIT faculty.