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    • The craft of economics : lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework 

      Leamer, Edward E. (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 

      Schultz, Paul H. (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 

      Blanchard, Olivier Jean (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 

      Tucker, Jonathan B. (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 

      Uttal, William R. (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 

      Seemann, Axel (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 

      Price, Donald D.; Barrell, James J. (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 

      Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. (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 

      Postigo, Hector (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 

      Braver, Lee (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 

      Kabasenche, William P.; O'Rourke, Slater, Michael Matthew H. (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 

      Wolff, Richard D.; Resnick, Stephen A. (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 

      Nelson, Harold G.; Stolterman, Erik (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 

      Shifman, Limor (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 ...

    • Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design 

      Baccini, Peter; Brunner, Paul H. (MIT Press, 2012)
      Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and ...

    • Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain 

      Todd, Peter M.; Hills, Thomas T.; Robbins, Trevor W. (MIT Press, 2012)
      Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and information. We search for ...

    • Mining the Biomedical Literature 

      Shatkay, Hagit; Craven, Mark (MIT Press, 2012)
      The introduction of high-throughput methods has transformed biology into a data-rich science. Knowledge about biological entities and processes has traditionally been acquired by thousands of scientists through decades of ...

    • Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior 

      Fidel, Raya (MIT Press, 2012)
      Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of study that investigates how people interact with information, its subfield human information behavior (HIB) is a flourishing, active discipline. Yet despite their ...

    • Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society 

      Ling, Richard (MIT Press, 2012)
      Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument ...

    • The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics 

      Gunkel, David J. (MIT Press, 2012)
      One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"--consideration of the moral status of nonhuman ...