Browsing MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series by Subject "Acemoglu"

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    • The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT 

      Temin, Peter (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-06-05)
      This paper recalls the unity of economics and economics at MIT before the Second World War, and their divergence thereafter. Economic history at MIT reached its peak in the 1970s with three teachers of the subject to ...