What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 5 Jun 2025 12:39:43 UTC All snapshots from host www.economist.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuse Skip to content Try for free Enterprise Log in Menu Weekly edition The world in brief War in the Middle East War in Ukraine United States The world economy Business Artificial intelligence Archive 1945 Games Finance & economics | Sine laude What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics Aidan Toner-Rodgers was enjoying a meteoric rise at MIT. Then questions started to be asked about his work photograph: getty images May 22nd 2025 Share Listen to this story W hen the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issues a statement, it is often to celebrate a Nobel Prize. In the past decade, six of its professors have won the award—as many as the next two universities combined. But on May 16th it issued a different sort of press release: one disavowing research by a h

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 5 Jun 2025 12:39:43 UTC All snapshots from host www.economist.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuse Skip to content Try for free Enterprise Log in Menu Weekly edition The world in brief War in the Middle East War in Ukraine United States The world economy Business Artificial intelligence Archive 1945 Games Finance & economics | Sine laude What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics Aidan Toner-Rodgers was enjoying a meteoric rise at MIT. Then questions started to be asked about his work photog