Why economists are flocking to Silicon Valley
And why big tech wants them
For more than a decade Facebook, now known as Meta, has awarded fellowships to promising graduate students working on cutting-edge research. The prize, which this year comes with up to two years’ worth of university tuition and a $42,000 stipend, has gone to computer scientists, engineers, physicists and statisticians. Now it has gone to an economist. “I was not expecting it,” says Jaume Vives i Bastida, the lucky recipient working on a phd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit).
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Mr Smith goes to Silicon Valley”
Business September 10th 2022
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