The MIT Press catalog for Fall 2009 is available now. The title that leapt out for me is Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Sanders Wired for Innovation on the way information technologies have been turned by businesses into productivity improvements. Brynjolfsson has been a pioneer in understanding the transmission mechanism, as it were, for the effects of ICTs so I'm very excited to see it's coming out at book length. Another highlight is Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan Blinder on The Offshoring of American Jobs (with an introduction by my wonderful thesis adviser, Ben Friedman). I was also intrigued by Streetlights and Shadows by Gary Klein, on how we take decisions – looks like similar terrain to the Gladwell book but more serious. There's also Eli Berman on the economics of terrorism, Radical, Religious and Violent.

As always from the good folks at MIT Press, there are many titles on technology which appeal to the geek rather than the economist in me. These include the Castells et al volume on mobile communications which I haven't yet read but should, out now in paperback.