MIT Economics Department

The MIT Department of Economics is a department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Undergraduate studies in economics were introduced in the 19th century by institute president Francis Amasa Walker. The department's Ph.D. program was introduced in 1941.

Although it shares facilities (and numerous faculty members) with the MIT Sloan School of Management, the department is actually part of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Nobel Laureates

Among the department's past and current faculty and alumni are several recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics:
* Eric Maskin, 2007
* Robert F. Engle, 2003
* George Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001
* Daniel McFadden, 2000
* Robert Mundell, 1999
* Robert C. Merton, 1997
* Robert Solow, 1987
* Franco Modigliani, 1985
* Lawrence Klein, 1980
* Paul Samuelson, 1970

Current Faculty

Professors

* Daron Acemoglu
* Joshua Angrist
* Abhijit Banerjee
* Olivier Blanchard [past Department Head]
* Ricardo J. Caballero
* Dora L. Costa
* Peter A. Diamond [past Department Head]
* Esther Duflo
* Glenn Ellison
* Robert S. Gibbons
* Michael Greenstone
* Jonathan Gruber
* Jeffrey Harris
* Jerry A. Hausman
* Bengt R. Holmström [past Department Head]
* Paul Joskow [past Department Head]
* Whitney K. Newey
* Michael J. Piore
* James M. Poterba [current Department Head]
* Nancy Rose
* Stephen Ross
* Richard L. Schmalensee
* James M. Snyder
* Peter Temin [past Department Head]
* Lester Thurow
* William Wheaton

Associate Professors

* George-Marios Angeletos
* David Autor
* Victor Chernozhukov
* Amy Finkelstein
* Iván Werning
* Muhamet Yildiz

Assistant Professors

* Mikhail Golosov
* Panle Jia
* Sergei Izmalkov
* Guido Lorenzoni
* Anna Mikusheva
* Stephen Ryan

enior Lecturer

* Sara Fisher Ellison

Professors Emeriti

* Morris Adelman
* Sidney Alexander
* Robert L. Bishop
* Richard S. Eckaus [past Department Head]
* Franklin M. Fisher
* Stanley Fischer [past Department Head]
* Jerome Rothenberg
* Paul Samuelson
* Abraham J. Seigel
* Robert Solow

Affiliated Faculty

*Mathias Dewatripont
*Ernst Fehr
*Jean Tirole

Former Faculty

* E. Cary Brown (Ph.D., Harvard) Professor of Economics, Emeritus
* Evsey Domar (Ph.D., Harvard)
* Rudi Dornbusch (Ph.D., Chicago) Ford International Professor, International Economics
* Robert F. Engle (Ph.D., Cornell)
* Charles P. Kindleberger (Ph.D., Columbia) Ford International Professor of Economics, Emeritus
* Edwin Kuh
* Paul Krugman (Ph.D., MIT) John Bates Clark Medal, 1991
* Eric Maskin (Ph.D., Harvard)
* Daniel McFadden
* Franco Modigliani (D.Jur., Rome and D.Soc.Sci., New School of Research) Institute Professor Emeritus; Professor of Finance & Economics
* George P. Shultz (Ph.D., MIT)
* Hal Varian (Ph.D., Berkeley)

Notable Alumni

*Lawrence R. Klein (Ph.D., 1944) John Bates Clark Medal, 1959; President of the Econometric Society, 1960; President of the American Economic Association, 1977; Nobel Prize in Economics, 1980
*George P. Shultz (Ph.D., 1949) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2004
*Robert A. Mundell (Ph.D., 1956) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 1996; Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
*Peter A. Diamond (Ph.D., 1963) President of the Econometric Society, 1991; President of the American Economic Association, 2003
*George A. Akerlof (Ph.D., 1966) Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001; President of the American Economic Association, 2006
*Joseph E. Stiglitz (Ph.D., 1966) John Bates Clark Medal, 1979; Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001
*Jagdish N. Bhagwati (Ph.D., 1967) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2003
*Robert E. Hall (Ph.D., 1967) President of the American Economic Association, 2010
*William D. Nordhaus (Ph.D., 1967) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-1979; Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2004
*Avinash K. Dixit, (Ph.D., 1968) President of the Econometric Society, 2001; President of the American Economic Association, 2008
* Michael Rothschild, (Ph.D., 1968) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2005
*Stanley Fischer, (Ph.D., 1969) Governor of the Bank of Israel
*Robert C. Merton (Ph.D., 1970) President of the American Finance Association, 1986; Nobel Prize in Economics, 1997
*Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (Ph.D., 1970) European Central Bank Executive Board, 1998-2005
*Jeremy J. Siegel (Ph.D., 1971) financial markets guru
*Martin Neil Baily (Ph.D., 1972) Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001
*Robert J. Shiller (Ph.D., 1972) Fellow of the American Finance Association, 2006
*Paul R. Krugman (Ph.D., 1977) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1982-1983; John Bates Clark Medal, 1991
*Lucas Papademos (Ph.D., 1977) Vice President of the European Central Bank, 2002-
*Ben S. Bernanke (Ph.D., 1979) Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 2006-
*Kenneth S. Rogoff (Ph.D., 1980) IMF Chief Economist
*Jean Tirole (Ph.D., 1981) President of the Econometric Society, 1998; President of the European Economic Association, 2001
*N. Gregory Mankiw (Ph.D., 1984) Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2005
*Andrei Shleifer (Ph.D., 1986) John Bates Clark Medal, 1999
*Matthew Rabin (Ph.D., 1989) John Bates Clark Medal, 2001
*Andrew Samwick (Ph.D., 1993) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2004
*Steven D. Levitt (Ph.D., 1994) John Bates Clark Medal, 2003; co-author of "Freakonomics"
*Kristin Forbes (Ph.D., 1998) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2005