Ideas Made to Matter

12-year study looks at effects of universal basic income

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$25 million will be given to participants, with no strings attached.

Jan 30, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

New study: Gentrification triggered 16 percent drop in city crime

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Researchers examined Cambridge, Massachusetts, following the end of rent control in 1995.

Dec 21, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Cryptocurrency

Is bitcoin in a bubble? It wouldn't be the first.

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People saw 2013 as the big bitcoin bubble — until now.

Dec 18, 2017
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MIT Sloan faculty insights: 11 books from 2017

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Explore our digital future, changing urban mobility, entrepreneurship, and more.

Nov 17, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Finance

Brexit, explained

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Proponents said leaving the EU would save the U.K. money, but that isn’t the case.

Oct 18, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Economics

What banks didn’t learn from the Libor scandal

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Author of “The Spider Network” on interviewing the scandal’s mastermind, and how little has changed.

Apr 14, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Hospital quality scores really do reflect patient outcomes

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Research from MIT Sloan professor links quality to lower readmissions, mortality rates.

Mar 27, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Finance

Former Vanguard chief says market regulation key to trust

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The mix of public and private regulatory infrastructure—including Dodd-Frank—gives U.S. markets a unique advantage, says John Brennan.

Dec 6, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Finance

Rethinking how the housing crisis happened

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New research casts into doubt the central storyline of 2008 — that this was ever a subprime crisis to begin with.

Nov 9, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Financing around a health care bottleneck

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A new MIT Sloan course will apply alternative funding techniques to new drug development.

Oct 13, 2016
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