Prof. Jacob Moscona

Professor Moscona joined MIT's Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in July 2024. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2021 and was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard from 2021-2024. His research explores broad questions in economic development, with a focus on the role of innovation, the environment, and political economy. The first stream of Moscona's research investigates the forces that drive the rate and direction of technological progress, as well as how new technologies shape global productivity differences and adaptation to major threats like climate change. The second stream of his research studies the political economy of economic development, with a focus on how variation in social organization and institutions affects patterns of conflict and cooperation.