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Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged BCS/CSEW, British Crime Survey, Crime, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Danny Dorling, Inequality, Interpersonal violence, Police, Poverty, Property, Recession | Leave a comment

A Sociology of Financialisation?

By Tim Dant | Published: October 15, 2012

Beyond an economic analysis of the financial crisis

Posted in Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged David Tyfield, Debt, Economics, free market ideology, Hurrican Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Industialised, John Urry, Keynes, Keynesian, Labor, labour, Lancaster University, Market Capitalist, Neo-Liberal, peak oil, Privatisation, privatization, resource shortage, Social Science, Sociology, Sylvia Walby, Tim Dant | Leave a comment

Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 1, 2012

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

Posted in International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research, Resources, Science & Social Science, Social Science Bites | Also tagged Banking, Behavioral economics, Debt Crisis, Depression, Economics, Free Market, Global Recession, Macroeconomics, Market Forces, Rationailization, Rationalisation, Recession, Robert K. Merton, Robert Shiller, Self Fulfilling Prophecy, statistical analysis | 4 Responses

“Treated like imbeciles”

By Leo McCann | Published: May 28, 2012

While parts of Aditya Chakrabortty’s recent piece in the Guardian were sensible and informed, its central claim was unfair - that social science disciplines have been unable or unwilling to explore, explain, and confront the ‘Great Financial Crash’ of 2007-9

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Teaching | Also tagged Aditya Chakrabortty, Bob Carter, HM Revenue & Customs, Impact, Leo McCann, Social Science, Sociology, Sociology of Organization Study, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Work and Organization Studies | Leave a comment

Have the Social Sciences Failed Us?

By andrewgamble | Published: May 22, 2012

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.

Posted in Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Aditya Chakrabortty, Andrew Gamble, British Academy, CRESC, CSGR, Economics, New Paradigms in Public Policy, Political Studies Association, Social Science, Sociology, SPERI, The Guardian | Leave a comment

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