CAMBRIDGE — Ten years ago, Eugene Fama and Robert J. Shiller were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (together with Lars Peter Hansen) “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”.

CAMBRIDGE — In 1944, as World War II neared its end, the exiled Hungarian economic sociologist Karl Polanyi published The Great Transformation, a treatise that focused on the dangers of trying to separate economic systems from the societies they inhabit.

CAMBRIDGE — William Shakespeare’s 1597 comedy “Love’s Labour’s Lost” tells the story of four Frenchmen as they navigate the tension between commitment to intellectual development and the quest for domestic bliss.

CAMBRIDGE — September 2023 marked two important milestones in the history of economics, the 50th anniversary of the event that led to the rise of the “Chicago School of Economics” and the 15th anniversary of the one that precipitated its fall.Half-a-century ago, the “Chicago Boys

In an opinion drafted by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court rejected race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard (Obama’s law school alma mater) and the University of North Carolina on the grounds that they “cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Cl

CAMBRIDGE — This year marks the 30th anniversary of the European Union. When the Maastricht Treaty took effect in 1993, Europeans embarked on a historically unique experiment in supranational governance and shared sovereignty.

CAMBRIDGE — “This College Board — nobody elected them to anything.” So said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a press conference where he threatened to block a new Advanced Placement (college-level) African American Studies class from being offered to the state’s high school stude

CAMBRIDGE — In 2008, University of Chicago economist (and future Nobel laureate) Richard Thaler and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein published their book Nudge, which popularised the idea that subtle design changes in the architecture of choice (“nudges”) can influence our beh

CAMBRIDGE — It has been ten years since an eight-story commercial building housing several textile factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on April 24, 2013.