Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
January 30 Webinar: The Great Recession and the Safety Net
AAPSS and Brookings will join to discuss the effects of the Great Recession in areas such as macroeconomic policy, politics, the job market and household wealth in a forum that will be live streamed here this Thursday.
Social Sciences Worth an Estimated £24 Billion to UK Economy
This post originally appeared on the London School of Economis (LSE) Media page here. It is kindly reposted with their permission. Social science […]
Roberto Unger on What is Wrong with the Social Sciences Today?
In the latest edition of Social Science Bites, Brazilian philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger discusses what is wrong with the social sciences today, arguing that they have degenerated into a pseudo-‐science.
Facebook and Uncritical Contemporary Culture
There they sit, giving the ‘thumbs-up’ to our lives, affirming that all is okay in our world. The ubiquitous “like” button, the […]
Conference Announcement: Finding Common Ground? Research ethics across the Social Sciences.
10th January 2014, 09.30 – 16.30, British Library Conference Centre We are pleased to hold this conference in partnership with the Academy […]
Joseph Stiglitz Receives 2014 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize
Nobel Prize-winning economist will give public lecture in May as part of prize ceremony.
New Director Named at Stanford’s CASBS
Renowned political scientist Dr. Margaret Levi has accepted an appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (CASBS). She succeeds Dr. Iris Litt, who has twice served as Director and was the first female director of the Center.
The New Academic Elitism
In academia, elitism seems to be taking root, and privilege seems to matter more and more. Daniel Nehring discusses the consequences.
