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Andrew McAfee

Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan

Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Technology and Society organization at Google. He studies how technological progress changes the world. His book, The Geek Way, was published by Little, Brown in 2023. His previous books include More from Less and, with Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age.

McAfee has written for publications including Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He’s talked about his work on CNN and 60 Minutes, at the World Economic Forum, TED, and the Aspen Ideas Festival, with Tom Friedman and Fareed Zakaria, and in front of many international and domestic audiences. He’s also advised many of the world’s largest corporations and organizations ranging from the IMF to the Boston Red Sox to the US Intelligence Community.

McAfee and his frequent coauthor Erik Brynjolfsson are only people named to both the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.

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Research Papers Europe Can’t Get Out of It’s Own Way

October 26, 2026

  • Andrew McAfee | Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan

    • Published in Foreign Affairs magazine in September 2026, MIT IDE Co-Director Andrew McAfee argues in this article that Europe’s flagging competitiveness is due to labor complexity, tax policy, red tape and technology regulation.