Mit Press imprint: 940 books
The Invisible Heart
An Economic Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
A lively, unorthodox look at economics, business, and public policy told in the form of a novel.
A love story that embraces the business and economic issues of the day?
The Invisible Heart takes a provocative look at business, economics, and regulation through the eyes of Sam Gordon...
CO2 Rising
The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.
The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are...
by Braden R. Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.
In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They...
The Coming Generational Storm
What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2005
How to avoid a fiscal crisis in the next generation— and how to protect yourself if the government acts too late: policy recommendations and individual strategies to protect against skyrocketing tax rates, drastically reduced health and retirement benefits, high inflation, and a ruined currency.
In...
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Climate Change and Energy Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency.
The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of...
Energy and Civilization
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.
"I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization:...
Lonely Ideas
Can Russia Compete?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled “Made in Russia”? Probably...
Solar Revolution
The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy—in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells—is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.
In Solar Revolution, fund...
An Economist in the Real World
The Art of Policymaking in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
An economist's perspective on the nuts and bolts of economic policymaking, based on his experience as the Chief Economic Adviser in India.
In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then...
The Stack
On Software and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.
What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It...
Between Reason and Experience
Essays in Technology and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.
The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages,...
What Algorithms Want
Imagination in the Age of Computing
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.
We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to...
Recycling Reconsidered
The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice,...
Invisible Engines
How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Harnessing the power of software platforms: what executives and entrepreneurs must know about how to use this technology to transform industries and how to develop the strategies that will create value and drive profits.
Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched,...