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Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View
(MIT Press, 2013)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 this book, Kartik ... -
Inside and Outside Liquidity
(MIT Press, 2013)Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make ... -
Artificial cognitive systems : a primer
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and artificial, is about anticipating the need for action and developing the capacity ... -
The New Visual Neurosciences
(MIT Press, 2013)Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to all other areas. This essential reference to contemporary visual neuroscience covers the extraordinary range of the field today, from molecules ... -
Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools
(MIT Press, 2013)Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and ... -
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
(MIT Press, 2013)We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. ... -
Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
(MIT Press, 2013)In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions ... -
Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory
(MIT Press, 2013)Vision is one of the most active areas in biomedical research, and visual psychophysical techniques are a foundational methodology for this research enterprise. Visual psychophysics, which studies the relationship between ... -
Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology: An Introduction
(MIT Press, 2013)Systems techniques are integral to current research in molecular cell biology, and system-level investigations are often accompanied by mathematical models. These models serve as working hypotheses: they help us to understand ... -
Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature
(MIT Press, 2013)The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, ... -
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
(MIT Press, 2013)Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published ... -
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
(MIT Press, 2013)An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed, rather than brain-bound, "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions ... -
Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
(MIT Press, 2013)In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizations of effective, ... -
A metaphysics of psychopathology
(MIT Press, 2014)In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking whether a given psychiatric disorder is real, similarly, in psychology, scholars debate the reality of such theoretical entities as general intelligence, superegos, and ... -
Leading Open Innovation
(MIT Press, 2013)In today's competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations ... -
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
(MIT Press, 2014)We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. Derivations of the equations of motion, the focus of traditional presentations of mechanics, are just the beginning. This innovative ... -
Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age
(MIT Press, 2013)Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking ... -
Empirical Model Discovery and Theory Evaluation: Automatic Selection Methods in Econometrics
(MIT Press, 2014)A synthesis of the authors' groundbreaking econometric research on automatic model selection, which uses powerful computational algorithms and theory evaluation. Economic models of empirical phenomena are developed for a ... -
The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics
(MIT Press, 2014)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. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue ... -
Labor Economics
(MIT Press, 2014)The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This landmark graduate-level text combines depth and ...
