The Mit Press: 939 books
The Regulation of International Trade
The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A detailed examination of WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, discussing legal context, policy background, economic rationale, and case law.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current...
by Petros C. Mavroidis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
A detailed examination of the GATT regime for international trade, discussing the negotiating record, policy background, economic rationale, and case law.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created alongside other towering achievements of the post-World War II era, including...
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek”...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
The Civic Web
Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.
There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join...
by Itzhak Gilboa
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
A nontechnical, concise, and rigorous introduction to the rational choice paradigm, focusing on basic insights applicable in fields ranging from economics to philosophy.
This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice...
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades.
"Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."—David Brooks, The New York Times
How does social change happen? When do social movements...
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.
Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation...
Dynamics among Nations
The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An innovative view of the changing geopolitical landscape that draws on the science of complex adaptive systems to understand changes in global interaction.
Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of...
Engaging the Everyday
Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.
Far-reaching efforts to address environmental issues rarely seem to resonate with citizens of the United States or other...
Political Economics
Explaining Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2002
What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly...
Venture Labor
Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.
In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Internet startups took risks—left well-paying jobs for the chance of striking it rich through stock options...
A World to Live In
An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater...
Updating to Remain the Same
Habitual New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.
New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the...