Tag: economics

Modernizing Universities?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 8, 2013

Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged CEO, Corporatization, employment, Funding, higher education, innovation, managerial, organizational management, social science, University management | 2 Comments

Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: November 8, 2012

New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.

Posted in Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged 47%, behavioral science, Christine Ma-Kellams, Empathy, Experiments, Finance, inequality, Jim Blascovich, pacific standard, Psychology, Romney, Santa Barbara, Science of Ethics, social science, Tom Jacobs, UNiversity of California | 1 Comment

A Sociology of Financialisation?

By Tim Dant | Published: October 15, 2012

Beyond an economic analysis of the financial crisis

Posted in Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged David Tyfield, debt, financial crisis, free market ideology, Hurrican Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Industialised, John Urry, Keynes, Keynesian, labor, labour, Lancaster University, Market Capitalist, Neo-Liberal, peak oil, Privatisation, privatization, resource shortage, social science, sociology, Sylvia Walby, Tim Dant | 6 Comments

Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 31, 2012

There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.

Posted in Audio, Communication, International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Resources | Also tagged Culture, gender, Paul Seabright, Relationships, Sex, social science, workplace | 9 Comments

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 29, 2012

Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, elite, inequality, Martin Gilens, middle class, policy, political science, Politics, social science, The Monkey Cage | Leave a comment

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 24, 2012

In my previous post I discussed the lack of government responsiveness to the middle-class and the poor, when their policy preferences diverge from those of the affluent. This inequality is pervasive: I found no circumstances during the decades I examined in which the middle-class had as much influence as the well-off, or the poor as [...]

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, Class, Classism, elite, government policy, Government responsiveness, inequality, Martin Gilens, middle class, political science, The Monkey Cage | Leave a comment

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 16, 2012

If policy influence becomes so unequal that the wishes of most citizens are ignored most of the time, a country’s claim to be a democracy is cast in doubt. And that is exactly what I found in my analyses of the link between public preferences and government policy in the U.S.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, democracy, Economic Inequality, Graphs, impact, inequality, Martin Gilens, middle class, policy, political science, The Monkey Cage | 9 Comments

Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 1, 2012

In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in economics with the study not of how people would behave if they were perfectly rational, but of how they actually behave. At the vanguard of this movement is Robert Shiller of Yale University. He sits down with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Banking, Behavioral economics, David Edmonds, Debt Crisis, Depression, financial crisis, Free Market, Global Recession, Kahneman, macroeconomics, Market Forces, Nigel Warburton, Rationailization, Rationalisation, recession, Robert K. Merton, Robert Shiller, Self Fulfilling Prophecy, social science, statistical analysis, Tversky | 23 Comments

The Importance of Studying the Obvious

By The Harvard Business Review | Published: July 6, 2012

Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.

Posted in Academic Funding, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged big data, Common Sense, computational social science, debt, Duncan Watts, economy, Flake Amendment, Government, In Defense of Common Sense, Natural Science, NSF, NSF Funding, political science, social science | 7 Comments

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