Exploring the history of data-driven arguments in public life
MIT Associate Professor William Deringer studies how quantitative reasoning has become part of public life.
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MIT Associate Professor William Deringer studies how quantitative reasoning has become part of public life.
In 2023, Isaiah Andrews, Joshua Bennett, Megan Black, William Deringer, E.J. Green, Nathaniel Hendren, Caley Horan, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Frank Schilbach, Caitlin Talmadge, and Leslie Tilley were granted tenure in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
In her new book, “Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America,” MIT Professor Caley Horan examines the rise of the insurance industry into a postwar behemoth — one that expanded into real estate, shaped the social geography of America through its policies, and promoted the sense that insurance, while pooling risk, boils down to a private business contract between customers and brokers.