Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead, authorities said. The suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine others wounded was found dead ...

Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

Money isn’t everything. But for measuring national success, it has long been pretty much the only thing (other than, of course, sports). The specific metric that has prevailed since World War II is ...

The National Football League is doing just fine. While other leagues like the NBA and MLB struggle with viewership issues, the NFL continues to report record revenues year after year. Last year, the ...

MIT’s Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s offers an affordable, flexible path for aspiring economists. Students complete online MicroMasters courses before an eight-month in-person ...

Some seemingly great development ideas don’t work out as expected. One that famously flopped was to replace open-fire cooking used by 3 billion of the world’s poorest people with more efficient, less ...

The MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU) has launched its new B.Com Financial Analysis program, with the CFA Institute delegation in attendance. The ceremony highlighted collaborative plans to ...

Two professors from Massachusetts have been honored with one of the most prestigious awards in the world. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity," the Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...

Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and exploitative ...