Will AI augment our work and help us? Or automate our work and take our jobs? One economist contends that is up to us—and we’re doing it wrong. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Sendhil ...

Do you struggle with slouching, overeating or oversleeping? This holiday season, there’s a gift for that. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Sendhil Mullainathan about consumer innovations ...

As artificial intelligence is used more and more to aid—or sometimes replace—human decision-making, how worried should we be that these applications will automate bias against particular groups?

How a young Harvard economist is challenging the traditionalists in his field. Three years ago the Macarthur Foundation awarded economist Sendhil Mullainathan one of its $500,000 "genius" grants. Only ...

MIT’s Sendhil Mullainathan uses interdisciplinary methods to study issues like cigarette taxes and racial bias in hiringSendhil Mullainathan’s career is not what he once imagined for himself. When he ...

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. By Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. Times Books; 288 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk THE authors of this book both ...

Influential economics scholar Sendhil Mullainathan will join the University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty on July 1, 2018, where he has been appointed University Professor. He currently ...