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On March 28th, a new book unlocked the business power of networked markets. Platform Revolution, the latest book by MIT IDE Research Scientists, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne, and MIT Media Labs’ Sangeet Choudary, delivers a comprehensive analysis of how platforms − like Uber, Airbnb, and Apple − use technology to match producers and consumers. Buy […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/opinion/where-computers-defeat-humans-and-where-they-cant.html?_r=1
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/271278/the-future-of-the-workplace.html
Robert M. Solow, is an American economist who was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his important contributions to theories of economic growth. Solow received a B.A. (1947), an M.A. (1949), and a Ph.D. (1951) from Harvard University. He began teaching economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1949, becoming professor of economics there in 1958 and professor emeritus […]
A. Michael Spence is an American economist who, with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundations for the theory of markets with asymmetric information. Spence studied at Yale University (B.A., 1966), the University of Oxford (B.A., M.A., 1968), and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1972). He taught at Harvard and at Stanford University, serving as […]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2016/03/13/is-digital-technology-making-us-any-better-off-one-prominent-economist-says-no-and-he-may-be-right/#22c54b822fa0
http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2016/03/13/the-physics-of-disruption/
Daniel Rock recently completed his postdoctoral associate position at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and is now an Assistant Professor at The Wharton School. He researches how firms make and earn returns to investments in technology, and is particularly interested in the economics of Artificial Intelligence. Some of his recent projects have focused […]