Mon, Oct 14 2019

Wendell Berry and his wife, Tanya, live in an unassuming but lovely white farm house, perched atop a grassy hill that overlooks a branch of the Kentucky River near Port Royal, Kentucky. A small herd of white sheep meander about the hillside with…

Esther Duflo, a thirty-seven-year-old professor of development economics—the economics of poor countries and poor people—runs field experiments that measure different ways to save the world. In February, she went to Long Beach…

Memories are short in politics, and in few places are they shorter than in Greece, where the prime minister who helped spend the country into crisis a decade ago (Kostas Karamanlis) has remained a kingmaker on the centre-right, and the one whose…

The week's must-reads for managing in the digital age, curated by the MIT SMR editors.