The Mit Press: 939 books
by Jan K. Brueckner
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
A rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics.
Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical....
The Sharing Economy
The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The wide-ranging implications of the shift to a sharing economy, a new model of organizing economic activity that may supplant traditional corporations.
Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these...
The Inversion Factor
How to Thrive in the IoT Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Why companies need to move away from a “product first” orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.
In the past, companies found success with a product-first orientation; they made a thing that did a thing. The**Inversion Factor explains why the companies of today and tomorrow...
Leading from Within
Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change: how to lead transformation with compassion for the needs and perspectives of all people.
Gretchen Steidle knows first-hand the personal transformation that mindfulness practice can bring. But she doesn't believe that...
Guardians of Finance
Making Regulators Work for Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.
The recent financial crisis was an accident, a “perfect storm” fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to...
Managing Risk and Uncertainty
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
A comprehensive framework for assessing strategies for managing risk and uncertainty, integrating theory and practice and synthesizing insights from many fields.
This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision...
An Engine, Not a Camera
How Financial Models Shape Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts...
by Jess Hemerly, Murray Maloney, Kimra McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.
Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things—books...
Reinventing the Automobile
Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun.
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a...
Chips and Change
How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors,...
The Resilient Enterprise
Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage.
What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole...
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.
Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled...
Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
Experiencing Aural Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.
We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house...
In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the...