Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Obaro Ikime, 1936-2023: Scholar of Nigerian and African Identity
Obaro Ikime died on 25 April 2023, aged 86. He fought valiantly, and ultimately successfully, to get the discipline of history restored to Nigerian higher education.
Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations
Robert “Bob” Lucas Jr., an economist, educator and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, died May 15. He was 85.
Bear Braumoeller, 1968-2023: Prescient Observer of the International Order
Bear Braumoeller, a political scientist and computational social scientist whose work on international conflict in today’s world seemed especially prescient after Russia’s war on Ukraine, has died
Aporophobia: Why People Reject The Poor
The idea that the poor are impoverished morally as well as materially, that they lack humanity as well as means, has a long history.
A Geographical Approach for Collaboration and Connection?
Aled Singleton shows how groups of people harnessed psychogeography through digital technologies in 2021 and 2022, potentially opening team projects across different places.
Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth: Lessons Drawn From the Chinese Experience
Wealth concentration is a widespread global problem. However, there is few researches exploring how political power structures impact the concentration of family wealth, especially the relationship between de jure and de facto political power. Therefore, this has motivated us to pursue this research.
Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology
Psychologist Shinobu Kitayama explores the cultural differences between Asia and America, the possible origins of those differences, and how the brain and body may reflect those differences.
The Impact of Global Value Chains and Wage Bargaining Agreements on Wages
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Dagmara Nikulin, and Sabina Szymczak from Gdańsk University of Technology discuss their recent paper “Global value chains and wages under […]
