Textbooks now play a crucial role in teaching in the social sciences. Their importance is mirrored by their abundance; there is an enormous variety of textbooks on the most commonly taught subjects. The rise of the ‘textbook industry’ is not necessarily a good thing, though.

It’s time to settle the debate once and for all–and a study just released by “Freakonomics”  co-author Steven D. Levitt […]

Family stability more important than sexual orientation to children, the social science to social media, and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.

Political ads by independent groups are not only common – they are more effective From American Political Research Interrogational torture: Effective […]

Why do we punish and to what ends?

If you want to recruit the best and the brightest employees, it’s time to look beyond benefits and vertical advancement—you […]

Business Communication Quarterly, the only refereed journal devoted solely to the teaching of communication in the workplace, is now accepting […]

Editor’s note: Dr. Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg and Visiting Chief Economist at the […]

The claim that real politics is messier than the statistics are capable of capturing is obviously correct. But the implied corollary – that the government shouldn’t go out of its way to support it – doesn’t follow.

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As JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon came under fire for the bank’s $2 billion trading loss, the critical issue of risk […]

When it comes to job satisfaction, do “family” and “business” seem incompatible to you? A new study in Family Business […]