Libros de: Mit Press

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  • Bits to Bitcoin "How Our Digital Stuff Works "

    Day, Mark Stuart

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262037938
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.32,95 €

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    An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader.

    Most of us feel at home in front of a ...

  • What Algorithms Want "Imagination in the Age of Computing "

    Finn, Ed

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262536042
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.19,65 €

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    The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.

    We depend on'we believe in'algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book ...

  • Foolproof and Other Mathematical Meditations

    Hayes, Brian

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262536073
    • Páginas: 249
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.

    Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be ...

  • The Taxation of Pensions

    Holzmann, Robert Piggott, John

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038324
    • Páginas: 520
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.41,95 €

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    Theoretical and policy perspectives on the taxation of pension, viewed in an international context.

    Policy makers and academic researchers have been preoccupied in recent decades with the design of pension schemes and ...

  • Global Climate Policy "Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges"

    Luterbacher, Urs Sprinz, Detlef F.

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262535342
    • Páginas: 360
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.39,95 €

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    Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.

    The current international climate change regime has a ...

  • Lectures on Microeconomics "The Big Questions Approach "

    Pancs, Romans

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038188
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.79,95 €

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    Economic concepts and techniques presented through a series of 'big questions,' models that show how to pose a question rigorously and work toward an answer.

    This book helps readers master economic concepts and ...

  • Innovating "A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Produ"

    Pérez Breva, Luis

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262536127
    • Páginas: 424
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.27,30 €

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    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 ...

  • When Innovation Moves at Digital Speed "Strategies and Tactics to Provoke, Sustain, and Defend Innovation in Today's Unsettled Markets "

    Mit Sloan Management Review

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262535717
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Practical advice from experts on how to create, manage, measure, and improve innovation in and for today's digital markets

    All organizations grapple with what digitalization means for their business and, in particular, how ...

  • The Economics of Philanthropy "Donations and Fundraising "

    Scharf, Kimberley Tonin, Mirco

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038447
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.35,10 €

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    Experts bring economic tools to bear on philanthropic activities, addressing topics that range from the determinants of giving to the effectiveness of fundraising techniques.

    Economists are increasingly aware of the need to ...

  • The Deep Learning Revolution

    Sejnowski, Terrence J.

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038034
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.32,95 €

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    How deep learning'from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants'is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.

    The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the ...

  • The Cost-Benefit Revolution

    Sunstein, Cass R.

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038140
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.29,95 €

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    Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.

    Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately ...

  • The Essential Tversky

    Tversky, Amos

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262535106
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.36,95 €

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    Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky, one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century.

    Amos Tversky (1937-1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive ...

  • Economics Of Regulation And Antitrust

    Harrington, Joseph E. Sappington, D. Viscusi, Kip W.

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038065
    • Páginas: 1000
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.114,75 €

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    A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy.

    Regulation and antitrust are key elements of government ...

  • Beyond Austerity "Reforming the Greek Economy "

    Meghir, Costas Pissarides, Ch. Vayanos, Dimitri Vettas, Nikolaos

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035835
    • Páginas: 720
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.78,95 €

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    Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change.

    More than eight years after the global financial crisis began, ...

  • Digital Citizenship "The Internet, Society, and Participation "

    Mcneal, Ramona S. Mossberger, Karen Tolbert, Caroline J.

    Mit Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780262633536
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.26,95 €

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    This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.

    Just as education has ...

  • Data Science

    Kelleher, John D. Tierney, Brendan

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262535434
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.16,15 €

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    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 ...

  • Artificial Unintelligence "How Computers Misunderstand the World "

    Broussard, Meredith

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038003
    • Páginas: 237
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.27,95 €

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    A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.

    In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm ...

  • Renewables "The Politics of a Global Energy Transition "

    Aklin, Michaël Urpelainen, Johannes

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262534949
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.36,50 €

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    A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.

    Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the ...

  • Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous "The Story Behind the Headlines "

    Okonjo-Iweale, Ngozi

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780262038010
    • Páginas: 173
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.32,95 €

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    A frontline account of how to fight corruption, from Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

    In Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has written a primer for those working to root out corruption and ...

  • Gore Capitalism

    Valencia, Sayak

    Mit Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9781635900125
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.19,65 €

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    An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.

    "Death has become the most profitable business in existence."
    -from Gore Capitalism

    Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual ...