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I conduct phone interviews using Skype because it’s easy to record decent-quality audio that way, but it turns out that the program’s video features also come in handy.
John Van Reenen, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, joins us to discuss the economics of management, productivity, and information technology. Listen to this episode if you want to learn about how economists think about measuring management quality. We discuss the latest evidence the […]
Whether it’s searching for medical diagnoses or oil fields to explore, tracking Ebola outbreak patterns or interpreting retail marketing trends, big data is ushering in an era of exponential change.
MIT’s Center for Digital Business held a symposium on the new book, “The Race Against the Machine: The Future of Technology and Employment” as well as the “IBM Watson Challenge,” late last year.
A few months ago I attended the 12th annual Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty, a meeting that brought together around 50-60 policy and technical experts from government, academia, business, investors and NGOs.
We discuss the intersection of economics and networks. Does the structure of networks matter? How do beliefs and behaviors spread? Can we use the knowledge of a network to more efficiently achieve our objectives? Ben Golub, assistant professor of economics at Harvard, joins us to discuss his research and thoughts on these issues. We touch […]
In his important recent essay “The Return of Nature”, Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University, highlights a wonderful phenomenon: we humans have been giving land back to nature, since we no longer need it for our purposes.
Digital automation, and its impact on labor, society and the economy, has been studied from multiple perspectives and through many lenses.