Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
America’s National Parks Are a $56 Billion Economic Engine
Harvard’s Linda Bilmes on measuring the economic value of public lands
David Cutler on trimming U.S. healthcare costs
Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?
by David Cutler
Teaching Academic Honesty in CS50
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession
The severe economic fallout, in context
Lizabeth Cohen Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 years
Speakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
Harvard and Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV-2
As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Leadership without good judgment undermines government legitimacy
The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.
Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins
A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey
by Jacob Sweet
Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book
Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
Pippa Norris on the global rise of populist authoritarianism
Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.