Economics at MIT Brochure

The Economics department's faculty is equally committed to graduate and undergraduate education.  Senior professors teach introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics courses. The Department’s success in attracting exceptional undergraduates and preparing them for advanced study demonstrates the soundness of this philosophy and the excellence of the program.

Many faculty have written undergraduate and graduate textbooks that are used in colleges and universities around the world. Paul Samuelson first developed his pioneering economics text in an introductory economics course for MIT undergraduates. Rudiger Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer’s intermediate macroeconomics textbook introduced modern macroeconomic analysis to undergraduates and has been translated into many languages. Olivier Blanchard’s text brings state-of-the-art economic theory and applications to undergraduates, while Jonathan Gruber’s recent textbook does the same thing in public finance.

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