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Updated · MIT Sloan News · May 26

MIT Sloan Experts Release 6 New Books on AI, Trump Economics and Climate Startups

Updated

Updated · MIT Sloan News · May 26

MIT Sloan Experts Release 6 New Books on AI, Trump Economics and Climate Startups

2 articles · Updated · MIT Sloan News · May 26

Six new books from MIT Sloan experts were highlighted in a summer reading list, spanning climate entrepreneurship, monetary policy, AI, meritocracy, U.S. tech leadership and the economics of a second Trump administration.
One volume, edited by Gary Gensler and Simon Johnson with more than 70 contributors, examines how tariffs, alliance strains, deregulation and rule-of-law threats could affect growth, inflation, trade and the dollar.
Other books tackle sector-specific challenges: climate ventures' funding "valleys of death," central banks' tactics in a high-debt and geopolitically tense world, and AI's cultural evolution and unintended consequences.
The list also includes Emilio Castilla's critique of workplace meritocracy—citing a company study in which women, immigrants and racially disadvantaged workers received lower bonuses than white men despite equal scores—and Elisabeth Reynolds' call for investment in six priority technologies.

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