OpinionFebruary 18, 2021
Biden Channels FDR on STEM Policy
The president’s letter to his new science adviser emphasizes the crucial role science plays in our society—much as Roosevelt did in a similar missive in 1944
Stories by Henry Jacoby
Henry Jacoby is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management, Emeritus, in the MIT Sloan School of Management and former co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is focused on the integration of the natural and social sciences and policy analysis on threats to the global climate.
OpinionJuly 10, 2020
Counterfactual Experiments Are Crucial but Easy to Misunderstand
With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy