BOOKS
HOW HUMANS JUDGE MACHINES
MIT Press (2021)
How Humans Judge Machines compare people’s reactions to human and machine actions across dozens of experiments. It brings us one step closer to understanding when and why we judge humans and machines differently.
Open access at JudgingMachines.com.
In print starting February 2021 by MIT Press (pre-order).
Reviews:
“A must-read for everybody who wishes to understand the future of AI in our society.”
-Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT
“Fascinating, deeply provocative and highly relevant for the mid-21st century”
-Ed Glaeser, Harvard University
“Indispensable to any scholar studying the psychological aspects of AI ethics”
-Iyad Rahwan, Director of the Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
“A visual and intellectual tour de force!”
-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University
“A must read”
-Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago
Why Information Grows
BASIC BOOKS (2015)
What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. MIT's César Hidalgo, however, took a step back and focused on the evolution of information, and on the ability of people to generate it.
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REVIEWS:
"Mr Hidalgo succeeds brilliantly in bringing his complex subject to life.” (Full Review)
The Economist
"This is the future of growth theory and his thought-provoking book deserves to be widely read." (Full Review)
The Financial Times
"Anybody interested in the future of mathematical theory in economics should read Cesar Hidalgo’s book Why Information Grows."
Paul Romer
"It is filled with interesting ideas, and a pleasure to read."
Steven Pinker
"lays siege to many of the fundamental questions facing the study of our world" (Full Review)
The Austrian Review of Economics
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The Atlas of Economic Complexity
MIT PRESS (2014)
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products. The Atlas of Economic Complexity attempts to measure the amount of productive knowledge countries hold and how they can move to accumulate more of it by making more complex products.
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