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Racial discrimination in the taxicab industry has long been a problem. Some drivers simply don’t go into predominantly African-American neighborhoods. Others won’t pick up passengers who are African-American. The dawn of the sharing economy and the...

MIT Expert Series 2017 We hope you’ll tune in to the next installment of the MIT Sloan Expert Series. Join us on February 15th, 12 noon to 12:30 ET for a live conversation with Chris Knittel, professor of applied economics at MIT Sloan, who will talk...

As many of us have suspected for a long time, there is not much in the way of good news economically, when it comes to using ethanol in blends of petroleum. Read this study by an MIT economist. CAMBRIDGE, MA — If you have stopped at a gas station...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington’s carbon tax initiative was billed as a bipartisan approach to curbing carbon emissions. But voters in this progressive state roundly rejected the measure that drew opposition from the fossil fuel industry and, more surprisingly...

The widespread use of ethanol hasn’t substantially reduced the wholesale cost of gasoline, according to new research from MIT. The new findings contradict earlier research that attributed an observed reduction in the wholesale cost of gasoline...