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Tag: financial crisis
A Sociology of Financialisation?
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, economics, 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
Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics
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, economics, 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 22 Comments
“Treated like imbeciles”
While parts of Aditya Chakrabortty’s recent piece in the Guardian were sensible and informed, its central claim was unfair - that social science disciplines have been unable or unwilling to explore, explain, and confront the ‘Great Financial Crash’ of 2007-9
Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Teaching Also tagged Aditya Chakrabortty, Bob Carter, HM Revenue & Customs, impact, Leo McCann, social science, sociology, Sociology of Organization Study, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Work and Organization Studies 4 Comments
Have the Social Sciences Failed Us?
On 16 April, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote an article for the Guardian's Comment is Free, arguing that social scientists have failed to step up and offer alternatives in the wake of the economic crisis. Here, Andrew Gamble FBA responds.
Posted in Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy Also tagged Aditya Chakrabortty, Andrew Gamble, British Academy, CRESC, CSGR, economics, New Paradigms in Public Policy, Political Studies Association, social science, sociology, SPERI, The Guardian 3 Comments






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