The Mit Press: 939 books
Gurus and Oracles
The Marketing of Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
An examination of the information industry, from Reuters to Facebook, and the special characteristics of information and knowledge markets.
We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors...
No Future for You
Salvos from The Baffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler.
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...
Getting it Wrong
How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone...
Paid
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Confidence Games
Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products...
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 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 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...