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 next book, The Geek Way, will be 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.
Recent Insights
Featured publications
January 11, 2024
- Andrew McAfee | Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
October 8, 2019
- Andrew McAfee | Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
June 27, 2017
- Andrew McAfee | Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
Erik Brynjolfsson
November 1, 2012
- Andrew McAfee | Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
May 1, 2012
- Andrew McAfee | Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan