Hiring is, more and more, dominated by artificial intelligence. Standard AI-powered tools can sift through résumés, saving companies time and resources. Newer AI voice agents can also collect ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

Manufacturers, for the most part, don’t run their operations at full capacity. Machines sit idle. Processes are slowed. Macroeconomists have long studied the effects of these costly choices, asking, ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

Accounting for the costs of climate change is an increasing focus globally. In 2024, the United States alone had 27 “confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each,” ...

Financial crises of a sort that may normally hit financial markets once a century struck twice in the past two decades. First there was the 2008–09 financial crisis, then the COVID-19 pandemic. In ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

In a world where change is the only constant, CareerCast presents a masterclass in professional resilience. Host Anita Brick and leadership expert Justin Bookey dive deep into the art of navigating ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...