Curated playlist
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
- Amy FinkelsteinOregon held a Medicaid lottery in 2008, and economist Amy Finkelstein turned it into an experiment.
- Terrence MalickAfter Days of Heaven, director Terrence Malick moved to Paris and stayed out of public view for roughly two decades.
- Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky wrote his first article at age 10, about the fall of Barcelona.
- Esther DufloEsther Duflo was 46 when she became the youngest Nobel economics winner ever. She shared it in 2019.
- Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman turned to economics because psychohistory was fiction. Asimov's novels inspired him.
- Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson said he was born as an economist at age sixteen. It happened in a 1932 Chicago lecture on Malthus.
- Junot DíazJunot Díaz arrived in New Jersey at six unable to speak English. He later won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
- Daron AcemogluDaron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist whose papers have been cited nearly 250,000 times, according to Google Scholar. On the Open Syllabus Project's count, only Greg Mankiw and Paul Krugman appear more often on college economics…
- Hubert DreyfusIn 1964, the RAND Corporation hired philosopher Hubert Dreyfus to review artificial intelligence.
- Olivier BlanchardOlivier Blanchard became the IMF's chief economist two weeks before Lehman Brothers collapsed.
- Henry JenkinsMedia scholar Henry Jenkins began with the Marx Brothers, not the internet. His dissertation studied vaudeville comedy.