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Oct 14, 2024
Faculty Co-Directors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson receive 2024 Nobel in economics
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September 2024
Regulating Transformative Technologies
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Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand
Read more about Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor DemandAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
March 2024
New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018
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Oct 14, 2024
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize in economics
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Oct 14, 2024
Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality
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