Social Science Space

Paul Stoller considers the implications of ‘anti-science’ political candidates being elected to high office in the US and the likely […]

An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed […]

Gary Gutting explores the science of happiness in a blog-post for the New York Times, and looks at the data […]

Eduardo de la Fuente writes in ‘The Australian’ that WH Auden might have got it right when he quipped that […]

Stephen Curry writes on the LSE Impact Blog that the growth of academic blogging is an important new outlet for […]

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests that traditional measures of prosperity are not the best gauges of […]

The National Science Foundation has recently funded a national synthesis center at the University of Maryland that will integrate, for […]

Stephen M. Walt writes on Foreign Policy about the role that academics should play in public discourse about major social […]

A recent paper in the journal Social Science and Medicine found a strong association between having a physician manage a […]

National geography-test scores released in the US last week – part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress – revealed […]

Duncan Watts writes in New Scientist that ‘common sense’ can help us make sense of human behaviour – but can […]

A report published by the UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-committee on behavioural change policy finds that ‘nudges’ […]