Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in economics with the study not of how people would behave if they were perfectly rational, but of how they actually behave. At the vanguard of this movement is Robert Shiller of Yale University. He sits down with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast
As earnings season opens this week, corporate profits are expected to be lower than originally anticipated, according to The Wall Street Journal […]
Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.
It’s time to settle the debate once and for all–and a study just released by “Freakonomics” co-author Steven D. Levitt of the […]
On 16 April, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote an article for the Guardian’s Comment is Free, arguing that social scientists have failed to step up and offer alternatives in the wake of the economic crisis. Here, Andrew Gamble FBA responds.
Rich households found to be the real beneficiaries of economic prosperity Los Angeles, CA (February 28, 2012) People all over the world […]
In the New York Times recently Paul Krugman described how academic economists grow up, and how blogging might change that….
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]