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 […]
How Travel Increases Life Satisfaction
As millions hit the road this holiday weekend, we bring you a Journal of Travel Research study on how leisure travel has […]
Life after Business Failure
What happens to entrepreneurs when their businesses fail? Get the answer in the Journal of Management review, “Life after Business Failure: The […]
Social science sites of the week
Here is our latest weekly update. This week the Paralympics opened. Get started with our free news and research resources. See the […]
The CSR Agenda: Part 5 of 5
As we conclude this week’s series on corporate social responsibility, we bring you thought-provoking reflections from global business leaders and management scholars […]
Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.
Some thoughts on attitudes towards foreign students in the UK
When I was a student, I had teachers who spoke about opportunities to study abroad in terms of things like the ability to widen one’s emotional and intellectual horizon.To today’s hardboiled politicians, journalists, and academic managers, these views must seem quaint and laughable.
The CSR Agenda: Part 4 of 5
On Tuesday, Forbes published a case study about a corporate social responsibility strategy that spelled the difference between life and death: Around […]
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)
Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.
