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 […]
In this column from the Association for Psychological Science, David Yokum, a leader of the Obama administration’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, details what that nudge team has been doing.
When it comes to many of the big decisions faced by governments – and the private sector – behavioral science has more to offer than simple nudges.
How well do new sports facilities promote economic growth in a community? Recently published in the Journal of Sports Economics, the article “Do New Sports […]
The new government report ‘Succeeding as a Knowledge Economy’ takes forward most of the ideas about improving teaching at Britain institutions of higher education already found in a green paper published in November 2015. So what does this new report tell us about the future?
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the primacy of philosophy and social science in building a strong China, but he also said the disciplines must retain and enhance ‘Chinese characteristics’ like Marxism in the process.
[We’re pleased to welcome Nuria Rodriguez-Planas. Nuria published an article in ILR Review in March 2015, entitled “A Road Map to Vocational […]
Rebutting Daniel Nehring’s recent post asking if sociology still matters in Britain, Robert Dingwall responds that sociology does have a good story to tell about itself, even in the age of austerity.
The online presence of corporations has become increasingly important in the digital age, not only in terms of where corporations are listed […]