Social sciences
Said and Done
April 5, 2010
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences digest for April 2010
The sound and the query
March 26, 2010
Why do questions take the form they do? An MIT linguist explains how the noises we make help to shape the sentences we speak.
Also labeled: India
Burchard Scholars for 2010 announced
February 3, 2010
34 MIT undergraduates selected who excel in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
Said and Done: humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for January 2010
February 1, 2010
Also labeled: Arts, Books and authors, Economics, Global economic crisis, Humanities, Music, Science writing
Said and Done: humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for December 2009
January 4, 2010
Also labeled: Arts, Humanities
Nobel-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson dies at age 94
December 13, 2009
In a career that spanned seven decades, he transformed his field, influenced millions of students and turned MIT into an economics powerhouse
'Genius' grant for MIT economist
September 22, 2009
Esther Duflo receives MacArthur Fellowship for transformative work on economic development; has brought field experiments to studies of poverty around the world
MIT economists see a few bright spots
April 1, 2009
Six months after panel's initial warnings, 'we're not doomed'
Economist Robert C. Merton to receive Muh Award
February 23, 2009
Also labeled: Economics, Awards, honors and fellowships
Three from MIT named among world's top eight young economists
January 8, 2009
Survey by The Economist magazine highlights department's strength
Economists offer up advice to Obama
November 14, 2008
Solow, Mankiw see promising future, short-term problems
Candidates' energy policies fuel economist's commentary
August 19, 2008
A Q&A with MIT Professor Robert Pindyck
Blanchard appointed IMF chief economist
May 28, 2008
MIT economist analyzes troop surge in Iraq
November 5, 2007













