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The Color Revolution
(MIT Press, 2012)When the fashion industry declares that lime green is the new black, or instructs us to "think pink!," it is not the result of a backroom deal forged by a secretive cabal of fashion journalists, designers, manufacturers, ... -
Brain and the gaze : on the active boundaries of vision
(MIT Press, 2012)How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements ... -
Vision and Brain: How We Perceive the World
(MIT Press, 2012)In this accessible and engaging introduction to modern vision science, James Stone uses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, Stone argues, is not simply a question of knowing which ... -
Principles of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions
(MIT Press, 2012)The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity -- perception, cognition, and emotion -- because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain ... -
Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making
(MIT Press, 2012)How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped ... -
From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy: Retrospective and Prospective Views
(MIT Press, 2012)Many things inform a country's choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this book, Robin Boadway examines the role ... -
The craft of economics : lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework
(MIT Press, 2012)In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should ... -
Perspectives on Dodd-Frank and finance
(MIT Press, 2014)The Dodd--Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed by Congress in 2010 largely in response to the financial crisis, created the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Consumer Financial Protection ... -
In the wake of crisis
(MIT Press, 2012)In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic ... -
Innovation, dual use, and security : managing the risks of emerging biological and chemical technologies
(MIT Press, 2012)Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a ''dual-use dilemma'' because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile ... -
Reliability in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Meta-Meta-Analysis
(MIT Press, 2012)Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly claim that brain images generated by new brain imaging technologies reflect, correlate, or represent cognitive processes. In this book, William Uttal warns against these claims, arguing ... -
Joint Attention: New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
(MIT Press, 2012)Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention -- the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature -- has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what ... -
Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives
(MIT Press, 2012)The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, ... -
Recursive Macroeconomic Theory
(MIT Press, 2012)Recursive methods offer a powerful approach for characterizing and solving complicated problems in dynamic macroeconomics. Recursive Macroeconomic Theory provides both an introduction to recursive methods and advanced ... -
The digital rights movement: the role of technology in subverting digital copyright
(MIT Press, 2012)The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what ... -
Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
(MIT Press, 2012)Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important--and two of the most difficult--philosophers of the twentieth century, indelibly influencing the course of continental and analytic philosophy, ... -
Reference and Referring
(MIT Press, 2012)These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring ... -
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian
(MIT Press, 2012)Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, ... -
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World
(MIT Press, 2012)Humans did not discover fire--they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things--technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of ... -
Memes in Digital Culture
(MIT Press, 2014)In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt ...
