Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Jason Furman to Lead Center for Business and Government
The new director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center bridges economic research and policy.
Economists Publish Report on Financial Regulation Reform
"The Squam Lake Report" endorses some aspects of pending legislation, and offers different solutions in other areas.
Harvard Headlines: George Church profiled; an oil spill turns eyes to regulation
As an oil spill captures the world's attention, Daniel Carpenter's work on regulation becomes timely. Plus, a profile of molecular genetics pioneer George Church.
Articles on Esther Duflo, Shing-Tung Yau, and cancer drug discovery
Our news roundup includes articles on Shing-Tung Yao, Esther Duflo, and cancer drug discovery efforts with Harvard Medical School links.
Network scientists at Harvard: Nicholas Christakis, Laura Bogart, Martin Nowak
Exploring the weblike structures that underlie everything from friendship to cellular behavior
Jared Diamond and James Robinson apply "natural experiments" to studying histor
Applying "natural experiments" to the study of history
Jay Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana offer a new paradigm for executive compensation
Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation
by Jay Lorsch , Rakesh Khurana
Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
Online voting system Helios offers prototype for transparent, secure elections
The online voting system Helios offers a prototype for transparency and security in elections.
Michael Kremer's Group Aims To Bring Safe Drinking Water to the Developing World
A Harvard professor's project in Kenya strives to avoid common pitfalls of development work.
Scholars from Harvard and beyond address "hard problems" in the social sciences
Scholars from Harvard and elsewhere name their fields' most pressing problems, and open a forum for public debate on the Web.