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The Economics of Contracts
A Primer
2017 || Paperback || Bernard Salanie || MIT Press Ltd
A concise introduction to the theory of contracts, emphasizing basic tools that allow the reader to understand the main theoretical models; revised and updated throughout for this edition. The theory of contracts grew out of the failure of the general equilibrium model to account for the strategic interactions among agents that arise from informational asymmetries. This popular text, revised and updated throughout for the second edition, serves as a concise and rigorous introduction to the th...
Economic Dynamics
Theory and Computation
2009 || Hardback || John Stachurski || MIT Press Ltd
A rigorous and example-driven introduction to topics in economic dynamics, with an emphasis on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling dynamic systems. This text provides an introduction to the modern theory of economic dynamics, with emphasis on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling dynamic systems. Written to be both rigorous and engaging, the book shows how sound understanding of the underlying theory leads to effective algorithms for solving real world prob...
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
2013 || Paperback || Hans Belting e.a. || MIT Press Ltd
Mapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East. The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of bienn...
Planetary Improvement
Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism
2018 || Hardback || Jesse Goldstein || MIT Press Ltd
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that "green capitalism" is more capitalist than green. Entrepreneurs and investors in the green economy have encouraged a vision of addressing climate change with new technologies. In Planetary Improvement, Jesse Goldstein examines the cleantech entrepreneurial community in order to understand the limitations of environmental transformation within a capitalist system.
Reporting on a series of investment pitches by cleantech entrepreneu...
Frame Innovation
Create New Thinking by Design
2015 || Hardcover || Sydney) Kees (University of Technology Dorst || MIT Press Ltd
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed-open, complex, dynamic, and networked-and require a radically different response. In this book, Kees Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to proble...
The Origins of Musicality
2019 || Paperback || Henkjan Honing || MIT Press Ltd
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves unmusical. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology, neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology, and ...
Introduction to Machine Learning
2020 || Hardcover || Ethem Alpaydin || MIT Press Ltd
A substantially revised fourth edition of a comprehensive textbook, including new coverage of recent advances in deep learning and neural networks.
Introduction to Urban Science
Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
2021 || Hardcover || Luis M. A. Bettencourt || MIT Press Ltd
A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns.
Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such tradition...
Self-Tracking
2016 || Paperback || Gina Neff e.a. || MIT Press Ltd
What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.
Data Science
2018 || Paperback || John D. Kelleher e.a. || MIT Press Ltd
A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges. The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ads we see online, the books and movies that are recommended to us online, which emails are filtered into our spam folders, and even how much we pay for health insurance.
This volume in the MIT ...