Economics of Information

This blog started as a supplement for my Economics of Information course at MIT. However, it has expanded beyond that purpose and certainly should not be interpreted as official MIT views.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

How Blockchain Could Give Us a Smarter Energy Grid

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This issue is explained by a brief article in the MIT Technology Review , sent by classmate Jorge Cardona . It takes a look at how expert...

Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw

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Classmate Wei Wang sends over the following short article , published in Ars Technica . The piece looks at how attackers have exploited ...

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

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Classmate Nehal Mehta just forwarded on this piece , published by Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic . It looks at how Facebook shaped t...

Google’s $400 Million Bet Is Starting to Pay Off

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Classmate Jerry Woytash sends over the following article, "Google's $400 Million Bet Is Starting to Pay Off."  It's an in...

The Surprising Power of Online Experiments

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Here's a look at A/B testing, sent over by classmate Rajiv Gupta . The article , published in the Harvard Business Review, looks at t...

Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS

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Classmate Jerry Woytash provides this look at one of Amazon's next ventures, delivery service. "Amazon Is Testing Its Own Deliv...

Going Deeper into Cryptocurrency

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Classmate Alan teGroen forwards a resource -- Princeton's CS department's cryptocurrency course . Alan says the following: It...

Managing Our Hub Economy

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Classmate Varit Sukhum sends along "Managing Our Hub Economy," published in the Harvard Business Review this month. It's...

Amazon Takes Over the World

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Classmate Diego Grove sends over this article from the WSJ : "Amazon Takes Over the World."  The content should be self-explana...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Finding the Platform in Your Product

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Classmate Sumit Aggarwal sends over an informative article published in the July-August edition of the Harvard Business Review -- "...
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