The Chronicle of Higher Education

Humanities Dissertations Have Declined Far More Steeply Than Those in the Social Sciences, Report Finds

The American Academy of Science and Letters analyzed 443,543 dissertations over 65 years, looking at how the numbers changed ...
Forbes

Only About Half Of Social Science Results Can Be Replicated, Finds New Study

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Results from a massive research project investigating whether previously reported scientific ...
The Conversation

Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works

The announcement by Science Minister Judith Collins this week that half of New Zealand’s sole fund for fundamental science will now go to research with economic benefits – with social sciences and the ...
independent.org

Making the Science of Prosperity More Human

This book review is a web exclusive for the Fall 2025 issue of The Independent Review. When economists analyze human conduct exclusively in terms of scarcity, they ignore the complexity of the human ...
umass

Master of Science in Resource Economics

The UMass Amherst Master of Science in Resource Economics program tackles important societal problems by gathering and analyzing data to offer policy solutions that address today's most pressing ...
independent.org

A Critical History of Economic Thought

This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. What if economics were a material science? In Economics as Science: A Critical History of Economic Thought, ...
American Enterprise Institute

Sex, Science, and Economics

Harvard President Lawrence Summers set off a firestorm when he suggested at a recent academic conference that discrimination was not the key explanation for lagging numbers of women in science and ...