New executive editor of economics, finance, and business joins the MIT Press
November 1, 2022
Experienced publishing professional Catherine Woods will commission and develop new books with a focus on textbooks, trade titles, and research monographs.
Category: Economics
MIT Press journals contributors win Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
October 20, 2021
MIT economist Joshua Angrist shares the prestigious award alongside other frequent MIT Press journals contributors, David Card and Guido Imbens.
Author Talk: Economics in the Age of Covid-19 by Joshua Gans
June 12, 2020
MIT Press Live! presents an author talk with Joshua Gans, author of Economics in the Age of Covid-19.
MIT Press First Reads introduces Economics in the Age of COVID-19
April 23, 2020
The inaugural title in the MIT Press First Reads series is the first major book on the economic effects of COVID-19.
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment Part 2
September 15, 2016
Last week we posted the first part of a Q & A with Mike Smith and Rahul Teland, coauthors of Streaming, Sharing, Stealing:Big Data and the Future of Entertainment. Here’s part 2:
The Townsend Thai Project
April 27, 2016
Running since 1997 and continuing today, the Townsend Thai Project has tracked millions of observations about the economic activities of households and institutions in rural and urban Thailand. The project represents one of the most extensive datasets in the developing world. Chronicles from the Field by Robert M. Townsend, Sombat Sakunthasathien, and Rob Jordan offers an account of the design and implementation of this unique panel data survey. It tells the story not only of the origins and operations of the project but also of the challenges and rewards that come from a search to understand the process of a country’s economic development. In an interview, Robert Townsend provides an update on this innovative project.