The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
by Larry Karp
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
An introduction to the concepts and tools of natural resource economics, including dynamic models, market failures, and institutional remedies.
This introduction to natural resource economics treats resources as a type of capital; their management is an investment problem requiring forward-looking...
by Richard K. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
An introduction to the study of syntax that also introduces students to the principles of scientific theorizing.
This introductory text takes a novel approach to the study of syntax. Grammar as Science offers an introduction to syntax as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Syntax...
When Things Don't Fall Apart
Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis.
In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial...
Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises
Searching for Economic Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
An examination of Liquidity Crunch in triggering and characterizing financial crises.
Since the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007, advanced economies have felt a nagging sense of insecurity. In parallel, the profession has witnessed phenomena that are alien to mainstream macroeconomic...
IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It...
Protocol Politics
The Globalization of Internet Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
What are the global implications of the looming shortage of Internet addresses and the slow deployment of the new IPv6 protocol designed to solve this problem?
The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite supply of approximately...
The Outsourcer
The Story of India's IT Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
Dolphin Communication and Cognition
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Experts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive reference to findings in the laboratory and from the field.
Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring,...
The Grid
Biography of an American Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure.
The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the...
Democratic Experiments
Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
An examination of nanotechnology as a lens through which to study contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.
In Democratic Experiments, Brice Laurent discusses the challenges that emerging technologies create for democracy today. He focuses on nanotechnology and its attendant problems,...
The Sound of Innovation
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.
In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel...
Reordering Life
Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.
The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle over the control of knowledge. In Reordering Life, Stephen Hilgartner examines the “genomics revolution” and develops...
Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine
How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.
Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational...