Sociology: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 3: Reason in Religion
(MIT Press, 2014)Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the ... -
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity
(MIT Press, 2014)In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information ... -
Investigating the Psychological World Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences
(MIT Press, 2014)This book considers scientific method in the behavioral sciences, with particular reference to psychology. Psychologists learn about research methods and use them to conduct their research, but their training teaches them ... -
Evolution in Four Dimensions, Revised Edition
(MIT Press, 2014)This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, ... -
Lives of the laureates : twenty-three Nobel economists
(MIT Press, 2014)Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three Nobel Prize laureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights ... -
Post-crisis Fiscal Policy
(MIT Press, 2014)Fiscal policy makers have faced an extraordinarily challenging environment over the last few years. At the outset of the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time advocated a fiscal ... -
Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data
(MIT Press, 2014)In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist ... -
State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance
(MIT Press, 2014)Many recent studies on environmental governance focus on either the micro-level (the local and the individual) or the macro-level (the global) while neglecting governance at the nation-state level. State environmental ... -
Understanding beliefs
(MIT Press, 2014)Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs ... -
The marketplace of attention : how audiences take shape in a digital age
(MIT Press, 2014)Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, ... -
The interdisciplinary science of consumption
(MIT Press, 2014)Our drive to consume -- our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes -- evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive. But the psychological and neural processes that originally evolved to guide mammals toward ... -
The innovator's hypothesis : how cheap experiments are worth more than good ideas
(MIT Press, 2014)What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator's Hypothesis ... -
The conscious mind
(MIT Press, 2014)How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? ...
