The (evolving) art of war

In new book, political scientist Taylor Fravel uncovers the modern history of Chinese military strategy.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
May 8, 2019 ~8 min

Facebook is free, but should it count toward GDP anyway?

Study measures how much free online goods are worth to consumers.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
March 26, 2019 ~6 min


Special effects: How a movie could reduce corruption

A film and texting campaign can increase anticorruption reports from citizens, study shows.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
March 13, 2019 ~6 min

Study: Democracy fosters economic growth

Researchers find vast gains in productivity after countries democratize.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
March 7, 2019 ~7 min

Q&A: Why cities aren’t working for the working class

Professor David Autor’s latest research shows how economic polarization stems from urban job loss.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 20, 2019 ~7 min

Carrying Tasers increases police use of force, study finds

Cambridge experiment with City of London police found that, while rarely deployed, just the presence of electroshock devices led to greater overall hostility in police-public interactions – an example of what researchers call the ‘weapons effect’.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 20, 2018 ~7 min

The value of late-in-life health care spending | MIT News

Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 28, 2018 ~6 min

MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 77 students from the Class of 2018 | MIT News

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
June 26, 2018 ~3 min


Discovering hidden stories in the Flint water crisis | MIT News

Graduate student Elena Sobrino looks beyond the headlines to study interactions between the city’s people and institutions.

Fatima Husain | MIT News correspondent • mit
June 24, 2018 ~8 min

Method man | MIT News

Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 18, 2018 ~6 min

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