Tag: Economics

Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

By Social Science Space | Published: October 8, 2018

Two academics who have integrated what might have once seemed like non-economic externalities into economic models have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics. The winners are William D. Nordhaus of Yale University, cited for integrating climate change into macroeconomic analysis, and Paul M. Romer of New York University’s Stern School of Business, cited doing the same with technological innovations.

Posted in Announcements, Career, Impact, Recognition | Also tagged Climate Change, Nobel Prize, Technology | Leave a comment

The Well-Rounded Game Theorist: Martin Shubik, 1926-2018

By Social Science Space | Published: September 4, 2018

Martin Shubik, an economist, game theorist and political scientist whose sense of persepctive, and of humor, infused his voluminous work on complex and vexing questions, has died at age 92. He died August 22 at his home in Branford, Connecticut; Shubik had been on the faculty at nearby Yale University since 1963.

Posted in Impact | Also tagged Game Theory, Martin Shubik, Passings | Leave a comment

Paying for the Good Stuff

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 18, 2018

When Robert Dingwall was younger, sociology departments routinely taught a course on ‘industry,’, ‘work’ or ‘economic life.’ "Most of this turf has now been abandoned to business schools in the form of organization studies, where it increasingly struggles to resist the expansion of finance and accounting studies," he says, and to our detriment.

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Policy, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Bank of England, Inequality, productivity, Public Sociology, Sociology | Leave a comment

A Founding Father of Behavioral Economics Wins Nobel Prize

By Social Science Space | Published: October 9, 2017

Richard H. Thaler, the University of Chicago economist whose contributions linking psychology to the ‘dismal science’ caught the public’s eye in his co-authored bestselling book Nudge, has received this year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences.

Posted in Impact, Recognition | Also tagged Behavioral economics, Behavioural Economics, Nobel Prize, Nudge, Richard Thaler | Leave a comment

Do Women Count in Economics?

By Homa Zarghamee, Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin | Published: September 20, 2017

By one estimate of U.S. universities, there are about 300,000 fewer women students in the field of economics than there should be if sexism were not so rampant.

Posted in News | Also tagged Gender Gap, Inequality | Leave a comment

UK HE: Markets Are Good for Everyone – Except Academics….

By Robert Dingwall | Published: August 4, 2017

So if markets are truly good for English higher education, as many seem to think, should we follow that train of thought to its logical conclusions?

Posted in Brexit, Career, Higher Education Reform, News, Public Policy, Research | Also tagged Brexit, Policy, REF, Research | Leave a comment

Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 13, 2017

How well do sociology departments in the UK teach sociology that originated in the UK? Asking that surprisingly hard question may produce usable insights for academic Britain, argues our Robert Dingwall.

Posted in Brexit, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Research, Science & Social Science, Teaching | Also tagged Inequality, Social Science, Sociology, Teaching | Leave a comment

Economic Forecast: This Year’s Model May Disappoint

By Richard Whittle | Published: February 3, 2017

The value in economics lies not in some magical ability to divine the future. Tell that to the policymakers who expect their fortunes told.

Posted in News | Also tagged The Conversation | Leave a comment

In This Indebted World, Austerity May Be Forever

By Mark Blyth | Published: October 20, 2016

Political economist Mark Blyth argues that in a highly indebted world, austerity – introduced as an ‘emergency’ measure to save the economy, to right the fiscal ship – has becomes a permanent state of affairs.

Posted in News | Also tagged Aeon, austerity | Leave a comment

Why Did Contract Theory Deserve a Nobel Prize?

By Hongyi Li and Anton Kolotilin | Published: October 11, 2016

As technology improves and organizations become more complex, the theory and practice of contract design will only increase in importance. As such, we owe, we owe a great debt to this year's Nobel laureates in economics for giving us powerful tools to structure effective contracts.

Posted in Impact, Recognition, Research | Also tagged Nobel Prize, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Tag: Economics

Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

The Well-Rounded Game Theorist: Martin Shubik, 1926-2018

A Founding Father of Behavioral Economics Wins Nobel Prize

Do Women Count in Economics?

UK HE: Markets Are Good for Everyone – Except Academics….

Economic Forecast: This Year’s Model May Disappoint

In This Indebted World, Austerity May Be Forever

Why Did Contract Theory Deserve a Nobel Prize?

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