Mit Press: 1072 books
In 100 Years
Leading Economists Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this book, ten prominent economists—including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates—offer their ideas about what the future might hold in 100 years.
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers....
Reforming U.S. Financial Markets
Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.
Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence...
Global Carbon Pricing
The Path to Climate Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything),...
by Chaw-Bing Chang, Keh-Ping Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
A rigorous introduction to the theory and applications of state estimation and association, an important area in aerospace, electronics, and defense industries.
Applied state estimation and association is an important area for practicing engineers in aerospace, electronics, and defense industries,...
by Dean Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.
There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy....
Big Is Beautiful
Debunking the Myth of Small Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation.
In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small...
Knowledge for Sale
The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit...
by John Palfrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry.
Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization's intellectual property...
by Sherry Turkle, William J. Clancey, Stefan Helmreich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.
Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents,...
Progress and Confusion
The State of Macroeconomic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”?
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...
The World Trade System
Trends and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Leading trade esperts examine the world trading system today, from the multilateralism of the WTO to explosive bilateralism and the mega-regionals TPP and TTIP.
When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that...
Chemicals without Harm
Policies for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.
Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even...
Arguments that Count
Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
In a rapidly changing world, we rely upon experts to assess the promise and risks of new technology. But how do these experts make sense of a highly uncertain future?...
The Empire of Value
A New Foundation for Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.
With the advent of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge....