Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Joshua Gans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
An expert in management takes on the conventional wisdom about disruption, looking at companies that proved resilient and offering managers tools for survival.
“Disruption” is a business buzzword that has gotten out of control. Today everything and everyone seem to be characterized as disruptive—or,...
Parentonomics
An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
What every parent needs to know about negotiating, incentives, outsourcing, and other strategies to solve the economic management problem that is parenting.
Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth of his first child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person...
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.
In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)....
Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics
A Nontechnical View
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
An accessible description of modern macroeconomics, and a defense of its policy relevance.
Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In...
How Games Move Us
Emotion by Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games.
This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they...
Climate Change
What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
An updated and accessible account of what science knows about climate change, incorporating the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives.
Most of us are familiar with the term climate change but few of us understand the science behind it. We don't fully comprehend how climate change...
The Chinese Economy
Adaptation and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.
This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not...
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human...
by Kyna Leski
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others.
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process...
by Luis M. B. Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2000
This book provides an issue-driven introduction to industrial organization.
Over the past twenty years, the study of industrial organization—the analysis of imperfectly competitive markets—has grown from a niche area of microeconomics to a key component of economics and of related disciplines...
by James J. Heckman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today....
by Robert Pollin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.
In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030.
Achieving...
by Barry G. Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.
Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by...