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Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress. Diseases and Economic Development
(MIT Press, 2011)In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho integrate biological and economic perspectives into an explanation of the historical development of humanity and the economy, paying particular attention ... -
Unemployment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policies: A New Keynesian Perspective
(MIT Press, 2011)The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal ... -
The cognitive neurosciences
(MIT Press, 2014)Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The fifth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the ... -
Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory
(MIT Press, 2011)In Meaningful Games, Robin Clark explains in an accessible manner the usefulness of game theory in thinking about a wide range of issues in linguistics. Clark argues that we use grammar strategically to signal our intended ... -
Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
(MIT Press, 2011)How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today. -
The Wonder of Consciousness: Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection
(MIT Press, 2011)Consciousness is a wonderful thing. But if we are fully to appreciate the wonder of consciousness, we need to articulate what it is about consciousness that makes it such an interesting and important phenomenon to us. In ... -
How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory
(MIT Press, 2011)Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In How We Remember, Michael Hasselmo draws on recent ... -
Anaphora and Language Design
(MIT Press, 2011)Pronouns and anaphors (including reflexives such as himself and herself) may or must depend on antecedents for their interpretation. These dependencies are subject to conditions that prima facie show substantial crosslinguistic ... -
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
(MIT Press, 2012)Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties ... -
Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us
(MIT Press, 2012)This book is about the role played by the Guardians of Finance—the major financial regulatory institutions—in aiding and abetting the global financial crisis. During the ten to fifteen years during which this crisis was ... -
Biological Learning and Control: How the Brain Builds Representations, Predicts Events, and Makes Decisions
(MIT Press, 2012)A novel theoretical framework that describes a possible rationale for the regularity in how we move, how we learn, and how our brain predicts events. In Biological Learning and Control, Reza Shadmehr and Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi ... -
The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
(MIT Press, 2012)Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive ... -
Subjective time : the philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of temporality
(MIT Press, 2014)Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition, distinguishing memory, perception, and anticipation. ... -
Health Economics
(MIT Press, 2012)A textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to explain in economic terms how health care institutions and markets function. This book introduces students to the growing research field of health ... -
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
(MIT Press, 2014)The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural ... -
Why Architects Still Draw
(MIT Press, 2014)Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant ... -
Governing through goals : sustainable development goals as governance innovation
(MIT Press, 2017)In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier ... -
Scene Vision: Making Sense of What We See
(MIT Press, 2014)For many years, researchers have studied visual recognition with objects—single, clean, clear, and isolated objects, presented to subjects at the center of the screen. In our real environment, however, objects do not appear ... -
Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
(MIT Press, 2014)The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. ... -
Economic Dynamics in Discrete Time
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a unified, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of analytical and numerical tools for solving dynamic economic problems. The focus is on introducing recursive methods -- an important part of every ...
