Mit Press imprint: 940 books
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...
Taken for Grantedness
The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society—as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.
Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social...
Consciousness Revisited
Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.
We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend...
Tap
Unlocking the Mobile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
How the smartphone can become a personal concierge (not a stalker) in the mobile marketing revolution of smarter companies, value-seeking consumers, and curated offers.
Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more...
by Miguel Sicart
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Why computer games can be ethical, how players use their ethical values in gameplay, and the implications for game design.
Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know...
Unlocking the Clubhouse
Women in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
Understanding and overcoming the gender gap in computer science education.
The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online...
Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.