Libros de: Mit Press

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  • Infrastructural Ecologies "Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies"

    Brown, Hillary Stigge, Byron

    Mit Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780262533867
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.34,95 €

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    Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services'affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex ...

  • Taxing Ourselves "A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes"

    Bakija, Jon Slemrod, Joel

    Mit Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780262533171
    • Páginas: 560
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.34,95 €

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    To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the oversimplified and the arcane, presenting the ...

  • Money, Payments, and Liquidity

    Nosal, Ed Rocheteau, Guillaume

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262533270
    • Páginas: 504
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.58,90 €

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    In Money, Payments, and Liquidity, Guillaume Rocheteau and Ed Nosal provide a comprehensive investigation into the economics of money, liquidity, and payments by explicitly modeling the mechanics of trade and its various frictions (including search, ...

  • Paid "Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff"

    Maurer, Bill Swartz, Lana

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035750
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.32,20 €

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    Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left ...

  • Beyond the Triple Bottom Line "Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business Model "

    Dossa, Zahir Szekely, Francisco

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035996
    • Páginas: 248
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.57,95 €

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    Many recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. In this book, Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa offer a pragmatic new business model for sustainability that extends ...

  • The Economics of Contemporary Latin America

    Armendariz, Beatriz Larraín, Felipe

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262533157
    • Páginas: 464
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.52,95 €

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    Latin America is richly endowed with natural resources, fertile land, and vibrant cultures. Yet the region remains much poorer than its neighbors to the north. Most Latin American countries have not achieved standards of living ...

  • Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

    Ekbia, Hamid R. Nardi, Bonnie E.

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262036252
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.39,25 €

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    The computerization of the economy'and everyday life'has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a 'user' of ...

  • Investors and Exploiters in Ecology and Economics "Principles and Applications "

    Giraldeau, Luc-Alain Heeb, Philipp Kosfeld, Michael

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262036122
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.58,90 €

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    In the natural world, some agents (investors) employ strategies that provide resources, services, or information, while others (exploiters) gain advantages through these efforts. This behavior coexists and can be observed in many species and at ...

  • Monetary Theory and Policy

    Walsh, Ciaran

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035811
    • Páginas: 688
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.99,95 €

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    This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the most important topics in monetary economics, focusing on the primary models monetary economists have employed to address topics in theory and policy. Striking a balance of insight, ...

  • TAP "Unlocking the Mobile Economy"

    Ghose, Anindya

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262036276
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.34,95 €

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    Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more than three trillion dollar mobile economy. According to Anindya Ghose, a global authority ...

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

    Pérez Breva, Luis

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035354
    • Páginas: 424
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.39,25 €

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    Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but theres very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of ...

  • Double Dividend "Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States "

    Goettle, Richard J. Ho, Mun S. Jorgenson, Dale W Wilcoxen, P.

    Mit Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780262027090
    • Páginas: 640
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.95,95 €

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    Energy utilization, especially from fossil fuels, creates hidden costs in the form of pollution and environmental damages. The costs are well documented but are hidden in the sense that they occur outside the market, are ...

  • Introduction to Industrial Organization

    Cabral, Luis

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035941
    • Páginas: 440
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.99,35 €

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    The study of industrial organization (IO)'the analysis of the way firms compete with one another'has become a key component of economics and of such related disciplines as finance, strategy, and marketing. This book provides an ...

  • Social Economics "Current and Emerging Avenues"

    Costa-Font, Joan Macis, Mario

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035651
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.39,25 €

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    The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous ...

  • Dirty Gold "How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry "

    Bloomfield, Michael John

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035781
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.33,95 €

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    Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. ...

  • The Distracted Mind "Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World "

    Gazzaley, Adam Rosen, Larry D.

    Mit Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780262034944
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.32,30 €

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    Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask'read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Talk on ...

  • Driverless "Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead "

    Kurman, Melba Lipson, Hod

    Mit Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780262035224
    • Páginas: 328
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.27,95 €

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    In the year 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit. Googles newest driverless car had no steering wheel and no brakes. The message was clear: cars of the future will be ...

  • Immigration and the American Backlash

    Tirman, John

    Mit Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780262529990
    • Páginas: 216
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.19,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over "anchor babies," job stealing, welfare dependence, bilingualism, al-Qaeda terrorists disguised as Latinos, even a conspiracy by Latinos to "retake" the Southwest. ...

  • Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises "Searching for Economic Essentials"

    Calvo, Guillermo A.

    Mit Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780262035415
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.36,20 €

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    Since the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007, advanced economies have felt a nagging sense of insecurity. In parallel, the profession has witnessed phenomena that are alien to mainstream macroeconomic models. Financial crises are ...

  • Sharing Cities "A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities "

    Mclaren, Duncan

    Mit Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780262029728
    • Páginas: 464
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.32,50 €

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    The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing -- of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by ...