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Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics
(MIT Press, 2016)The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was ... -
Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
(MIT Press, 2016)In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge. Current philosophical approaches to memory ... -
The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience
(MIT Press, 2016)How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on ... -
Rethinking Human Evolution
(MIT Press, 2018)Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom ... -
Winning the Reputation Game: Creating Stakeholder Value and Competitive Advantage
(MIT Press, 2016)What does a company have to do to be admired and respected? Why does Apple have a better reputation than, say, Samsung? In Winning the Reputation Game, Grahame Dowling explains. Companies' reputations do not derive from ... -
Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine
(MIT Press, 2016)Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew ... -
The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement
(MIT Press, 2016)Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden age of neuroscience,” laboratory findings ... -
Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing
(MIT Press, 2016)Language is a hallmark of the human species, the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand ... -
The Economics of Continuous-Time Finance
(MIT Press, 2017)This book introduces the economic applications of the theory of continuous-time finance, with the goal of enabling the construction of realistic models, particularly those involving incomplete markets. Indeed, most recent ... -
Information and Society
(MIT Press, 2017)A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This ... -
Monetary Theory and Policy
(MIT Press, 2017)The new edition of a comprehensive treatment of monetary economics, including the first extensive coverage of the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates. This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the ... -
Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays
(MIT Press, 2017)Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics. InPhilosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp essays that take on ... -
Meaning in the Brain
(MIT Press, 2018)An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to ... -
Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know
(MIT Press, 2017)An exploration of what we can know about what we don't know: why ignorance is more than simply a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state ... -
The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body
(MIT Press, 2017)An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self. The body may be the object we know the ... -
Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
(MIT Press, 2017)The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle over the control of knowledge. In Reordering Life, Stephen Hilgartner examines the "genomics revolution" and develops a novel approach to studying the dynamics of change in ... -
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
(MIT Press, 2017)Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the ... -
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
(MIT Press, 2017)Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, ... -
How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
(MIT Press, 2017)A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important. As China has transformed itself from a centrally ... -
Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong
(MIT Press, 2017)Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out ...
