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MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
- Amy FinkelsteinAmy Finkelstein wanted to know whether health insurance actually made people healthier. It sounds like an obvious question.
- Terrence MalickTerrence Malick graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1965, won a Rhodes Scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford, then walked away from the…
- Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky wrote his first article at the age of 10, absorbed by the fall of Barcelona and the destruction of the Spanish anarchosyndicalist movement.
- Esther DufloEsther Duflo was born on the 25th of October 1972 in Paris, and by the age of 46 she had become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in…
- Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman grew up in Merrick, a hamlet on Long Island, and traces his interest in economics not to a professor or a recession, but to science fiction.
- Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson stood at a lectern in a University of Chicago classroom on the 2nd of January, 1932, and later said that was the exact moment he was born as…
- Junot DíazJunot Díaz was born on the last day of 1968, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Rafael and Virtudes Díaz. He was the third of seven children.
- Hubert DreyfusHubert Dreyfus walked into the RAND Corporation in 1964 with a commission that seemed routine: review the latest work in artificial intelligence.
- Olivier BlanchardOlivier Blanchard arrived at the International Monetary Fund as its chief economist in September 2008. He started the job two weeks before Lehman Brothers…
- Henry JenkinsHenry Guy Jenkins III was born on the 4th of June 1958, and he has spent his career asking one stubborn question: what happens when ordinary people stop…