Bookshelf
Bookshelf Archive 2008
Faculty books and productions from 2008.
Daron Acemoglu
Introduction to Modern Economic Growth
Princeton University Press, 2008
Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Economics.
Stephen Ansolabahere and James Snyder, Jr.
The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote, and the Transformation of American Politics
W.W. Norton & Company, 2008
Stephen Ansolabahere is Elton E. Morison Professor of Political Science.
James Snyder is Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science.
Alan Brody
Operation Epsilon
A play based on transcripts from the internment of 10 German nuclear scientists in Cambridge, England and what they said when America revealed the bomb.
Produced by the Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT, Central Square Theater, 2008
Alan Brody is Professor of Theater Arts.
Ricardo J. Caballero and Arvind Krisnamurthy (MIT PhD 1998)
"Collective Risk Management in a Flight to Quality Episode," in Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, Issue 5, October 2008
Recipient of the Smith Breeden First Place Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance during 2008.
Ricardo Caballero is Professor of Economics and Department Head.
Christopher Capozzola
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern Citizen
Oxford University Press, 2008
This vivid, fluidly written book examines the changing obligations of citizenship and the making of the modern American state in the midst of its participation in the First World War.
"A sharp sense of irony and dry wit undergird this eloquent history of how Americans remade their understanding of the relationship between state and citizen in the crucible of World War I. We now live with the massive structures of state power that were first constructed then; we share many of that generation's obligations and anxieties. Can we learn from their mistakes?" — Linda K. Kerber
Christopher Capozzola is Lister Career Development Associate Professor of History.
William Corbett
Opening Day
Hanging Loose Press, 2008
Bill Corbett is Director of Student Writing Activities, in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
Peter Diamond and Nicolas Barr
Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices
Oxford University Press, 2008
Peter Diamond is Institute Professor of Economics.
Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Paperback Edition, Riverhead Books (Penguin Group), 2008
Recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2008), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008).
Junot Díaz is Professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
Amy Finkelstein and Jeff Brown (MIT PhD 1999)
"The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market," in Annual Energy Review 2007, vol. 98, no. 3, 1083-1102, June 2008
Recipient of the 2008 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.
Amy Finkelstein is Professor of Economics, and Co-Director, Public Economics Program, National Bureau of Economic Research.
Michael M.J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit
Editors for a new series entitled Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Duke University Press, 2008
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software, by Christopher M. Kelty, is among the first books to appear in the new series. Michael Fischer's book for the series, Anthropological Futures, is forthcoming (June 2009).
Michael M.J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies.
M. Taylor Fravel
Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes
Princeton University Press, 2008
Taylor Fravel is Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science.
Mary C. Fuller
Remembering the Early Modern Voyage: English Narratives in the Age of European Expansion
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Mary Fuller is Professor of Literature.
Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Kei Izawa, Mary C. Fuller
A Life in Aikido: The Biography of Founder Morihei Ueshiba
Kodansha International, 2008
Mary Fuller is Associate Professor of Literature.
Elizabeth Garrels
Editor of a new edition of the novel Ifigenia: Diario de una señorita que escribió porque se fastidiaba, by Teresa de la Parra
Stockcero, 2008
Elizabeth Garrels is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies.
Ellen T. Harris
"Joseph Goupy and George Frideric Handel: From Professional Triumphs to Personal Estrangement," in Huntington Library Quarterly 71: 397-452, 2008
Ellen Harris is Professor of Music.
Diana Henderson
Editor, Alternative Shakespeares 3
Routledge, 2008
Diana Henderson is Professor of Literature and Dean for Curriculum and Faculty Support.
John Hildebidle
Signs, Translations
Salmon Poetry, 2008
John Hildebidle is Professor of Literature.
Noel Jackson
Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Noel Jackson is Associate Professor of Literature.
Erica Caple James
"Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era," in Postcolonial Disorders; Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron J. Good (eds.)
University of California Press, 2008
Erica James is Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Keeril Makan
In Sound
Tzadik Records, 2008
Keeril Makan is Assistant Professor of Music.
David A. Mindell
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Space Flight
The MIT Press, 2008
David Mindell is the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito
Editors, The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics
Oxford University Press, 2008
Shigeru Miyagawa is Kochi Prefecture-John Majiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, & Professor of Linguistics and Japanese.
Nick Montfort
"Obfuscated Code" in Software Studies; Matthew Fuller (ed.)
The MIT Press, 2008
Nick Montfort is Assistant Professor in Digital Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
Nick Montfort
"Playing to Solve Savoir-Faire," in Videogame, Player, Text; Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska (eds.)
Manchester University Press, 2008
Nick Montfort is Assistant Professor in Digital Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
Heather Paxson
"A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece" in Love and Globalization; M.B. Padilla, J.S. Hirsch, M. Munoz-Laboy, R.E. Sember, and Richard G. Parker (eds.)
Vanderbilt University Press, 2008
Heather Paxson is Class of 1957 Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Ruth Perry and Susan Carlile
Editors of new edition of Henrietta, by Charlotte Lennox
The University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Ruth Perry is Professor of Literature.
Jeffrey Ravel
The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Jeffrey Ravel is Associate Professor of History.
Harvey M. Sapolsky, Eugene Gholz and Caitlin Talmadge
US Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy
Routledge, 2008
Harvey M. Sapolsky is Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Susan S. Silbey
Editor, Law and Science, Volumes I and II
Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements;
Volume II: Regulation of Property, Practices, and Products
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008
Susan Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Anthropology and Section Head.
Susan S. Silbey and Scott Barclay
"Understanding Regime Change: Public Opinion, Legitimacy, and Legal Consciousness," in Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics; Keith E. Whittington, Daniel Kelemen, Gregory Caldeira (eds.)
Oxford University Press, 2008
Susan Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Anthropology and Section Head.
Irving Singer
Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
The MIT Press, 2008
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy.
Janet Sonenberg and Diana Henderson
Catalysts for "The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes," a play written by Adriano Shaplin; directed by Elizabeth Freestone; produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, 2008. Development began in Sonenberg's and Henderson's interdisciplinary course, "Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance."
Janet Sonenberg is Professor of Theater Arts, and Section Head, Music and Theatre Arts. Diana Henderson is Professor of Literature and Dean for Curriculum and Faculty Support.
Robert C. Stalnaker
Our Knowledge of the Internal World
Oxford University Press, 2008
Robert Stalnaker is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy.
Peter Temin and Stan Finkelstein
Reasonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis
FT Press, 2008
Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics.
Peter Temin, Charles H. Feinstein and Gianni Toniolo
The World Economy Between the World Wars
Oxford University Press, 2008
Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics.
Sherry Turkle
Editor, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind
The MIT Press, 2008
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
Sherry Turkle
Editor, The Inner History of Devices
The MIT Press, 2008
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
William Uricchio
Editor, We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identities
The University of Chicago Press, 2008
William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies.
Jing Wang
Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture
Harvard University Press, 2008
Jing Wang is S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture and Foreign Languages and Literatures Section Head.
Rosalind Williams
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination, New Edition
The MIT Press, 2008
Rosalind Williams is Bern Dibner Professor of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology and Society.
Stephen Yablo
Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality
Oxford University Press, 2008
Stephen Yablo is Professor of Philosophy.