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 […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Gioia Barnbrook
Winning essays Overall winner “CITY Inc.” | James Fletcher, King’s College London Highly Commended “They know how much oxygen I breathe, which […]
Showing Institutions Matter: Douglass North, 1920-2015
Douglass C. North’s contributions to economic theory have had an enormous influence on how scholars understand institutions and the process of economic change.
The Image-Driven University
While academics have not just recently become image-conscious, noted Daniel Nehring, the increasing infiltration by corporate interests into universities is changing the face of what that consciousness results in.
How Do CEOs Shape Corporate Culture?
In some ways, corporate culture is the personality of a company, and just like human personalities, corporate cultures can vary widely. Many […]
Delectable Reads: An Abundance of Book Reviews and Articles About Food
Still thinking about all of the delicious Thanksgiving food from yesterday? Here is a food-themed collection of book reviews and articles for you to dig […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 800 journals. The articles linked below are free […]
Spending Review: Research Ringfence Holds, But Doesn’t Expand
The Comprehensive Spending Review released today does protect the UK’s government-funded research budget as promised, but the research community sees lots of ways that the future on innovation could have been brighter and more robust.
James Wilsdon on the 2015 Spending Review
The Campaign for Social Science welcomes the relative protection given to the science budget in the spending review, says its chair, James Wilsdon, but it’s premature to see this as a good outcome for the long term health of the UK’s research base.
