Curated playlist
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
- Amy FinkelsteinOregon held a Medicaid lottery in 2008, and economist Amy Finkelstein turned it into an experiment.
- Joseph StiglitzJoseph Stiglitz explained why wages stay high in recessions even when workers are desperate for jobs.
- Ben BernankeBen Bernanke, an American economist, used the alias Edward Quince during the 2008 financial crisis. One email from Mr. Quince reads: "We think they are days from failure. They think it is a temporary problem. This disconnect is dangerous."…
- Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman turned to economics because psychohistory was fiction. Asimov's novels inspired him.
- Larry SummersLarry Summers, born Lawrence Henry Summers, was 28 years old in 1983 when Harvard gave him tenure, making him one of the youngest tenured professors in the university's history. Soon afterward, doctors diagnosed him with late-stage…
- Tobias AdrianTobias Adrian helped create CoVaR, a way to measure how one failing bank can drag down others.
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil's team built a machine that read printed pages aloud for blind people. It was unveiled in January 1976.
- Olivier BlanchardOlivier Blanchard became the IMF's chief economist two weeks before Lehman Brothers collapsed.
- Lawrence KleinLawrence Klein's model correctly predicted a postwar boom when many expected a depression.
- Melissa DellMelissa Dell compared Peruvian communities on either side of an old forced-labor boundary. Gaps lasted centuries.