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Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

Klein, Gary - The MIT Press

In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines--gather as much...

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I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior

Bentley, Alex; Earls, Mark; O'Brien, Michael J. - The MIT Press

Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes—and explains—most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt or gather or reproduce; our decisions are based on more than “nudges”...

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Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

Weber, Thomas A. - The MIT Press

This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for...

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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes

Forester, John F. - The MIT Press

Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger between stakeholders, and power plays by many—as well as appeals to rational argument. Deliberative...

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Social Dynamics

Durlauf, Steven N. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Economists have traditionally studied aggregate behavior as the outcome of individual decisions made interactively, while sociologists have focused on the role of social influences on individual behavior. Over the past decade, however, the barriers between the disciplines have broken down,...

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Government's Place in the Market

Spitzer, Eliot - The MIT Press

As New York State Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, Eliot Spitzer successfully pursued corporate crime, including stock price inflation, securities fraud, and predatory lending practices. Drawing on those experiences, in this book Spitzer considers when and how the government should intervene...

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New Directions in Financial Services Regulation

Porter, Roger B. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

R. Glenn Hubbard. New Directions in Financial Services Regulation grows out of a conference hosted by the Mossavar …

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Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke

Axilrod, Stephen H. - The MIT Press

Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed’s Board of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his unique perspective on the inner workings of the Federal...

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The Contours of Banking and the Future of Its Regulation

Tirole, Jean - The MIT Press

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The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators

Shleifer, Andrei - The MIT Press

Government regulation is ubiquitous today in rich and middle-income countries--present in areas that range from … rather uncommon. In this book, Andrei Shleifer argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained not so much by the … alternative has taken throughout the world is regulation. The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators gathers Shleifer …

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