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Showing posts with label social science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social science. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2018

Andrew Gelman — Gaydar and the fallacy of objective measurement

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Stripping a phemenon of its social context, normalizing a base rate to 50%, and seeking an on-off decision: all of these can give the feel ...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Daniel Little — Social science or social studies?

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This list of legitimate objects of empirical study in the social world, resulting in legitimate and evidence-based knowledge and explanatio...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Peter Turchin — A Quantitative Prediction for Political Violence in the 2020s

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In 2010 I made the prediction that the United States will experience a period of heightened social and political instability during the 202...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Andrew Batson — Why didn’t I read René Girard in Anthropology 101?

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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning may not have been the best place to start for a Girard newbie, but it does contain some of the most conci...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tyler Cowen — What are the most cited books in the social sciences?

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You might be surprised. And, yes, Das Kapital is on there. Marginal Revolution What are the most cited books in the social sciences? Tyle...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Daniel Little — Defining social phenomena

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How does a field of phenomena come into focus as a subject of scientific study? When we want to know about weather, we can identify a relat...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Daniel Little — Microfoundations 2.0?

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Little considers to what degree microfoundations is a necessary condition for causal explanation in social science. Understanding Society ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Eric Schliesser — On The Moral Sciences

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The eighteenth century term “moral science” (or “moral philosophy”—‘philosophy’ and ‘science’ are often treated as synonyms at the time) do...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

James Petras — The Myth of ‘Value-Free’ Social Science Or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science

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Introduction: For many decades, mainstream social scientists, mostly conservative, have argued that political commitments and scientific re...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Diane Coyle — Economics and humankind

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“ Political economy, or economics, is a study of man’s actions in the ordinary business of life ; it inquires how he gets his income and ho...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Daniel Little — What is methodology?

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Understanding Society What is methodology? Daniel Little | Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Philosophy ...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Branko Milankovic — Limits of neoclassical economics

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Branko nails it. When people criticize Piketty for elevating a mere economic identity that shows that the share of capital income in tota...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Paul Rosenberg — Conservatives, evil and psychopathy: Science makes the link!

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More science on the difference among personality types that determine different attitudes and behaviors. The defense of hierarchy is what...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Daniel Little — Why emergence?

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Little argues that emergence is unnecessary to evoke in order to avoid reductionism, methodological individualism, and microfoundations. T...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Peter Radford smacks down "economics"

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My conclusion: Economics needs to become a non-equilibrium social science that embraces importance of institutions, culture [rhetoric?], ne...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Daniel Little — Social mechanisms and meso-level causes

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My defense of meso-level causation is based on four ideas. First, the practice of sociologists justifies this claim, since sociologists d...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Daniel Little — New thinking about social systems

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There is a great deal of important international work underway today within the philosophy of social science on the general topic of social...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

David Hales — Lies, Damned Lies and Big Data

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Almost everything we do these days leaves some kind of data trace in some computer system somewhere. When such data is aggregated into huge...
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Friday, October 7, 2011

"Economics is not a social science"

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Not only is economics as currently taught not a science, it isn’t social either. Margaret Thatcher famously claimed that “there is no such t...
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