The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
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...
The World Trade System
Trends and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Leading trade esperts examine the world trading system today, from the multilateralism of the WTO to explosive bilateralism and the mega-regionals TPP and TTIP.
When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that...
Arguments that Count
Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
In a rapidly changing world, we rely upon experts to assess the promise and risks of new technology. But how do these experts make sense of a highly uncertain future?...
The Empire of Value
A New Foundation for Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.
With the advent of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge....
Acting with Technology
Activity Theory and Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.
Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people...
The Reputation Society
How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve...
The Bubble Economy
Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime...
Macroeconomic Essentials
Understanding Economics in the News
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The new edition of a concise and nontechnical but rigorous introductory text that emphasizes fundamental concepts and real-world applications, thoroughly revised and updated.
This introductory text offers an alternative to the encyclopedic, technically oriented approach taken by traditional...
Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.
Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge...
Social Economics
Current and Emerging Avenues
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A rich collection of current research in the growing field of social economics, covering such issues as culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior.
The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of...
by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
An introduction to the techniques and algorithms of the newest field in robotics.
Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots...