Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Robert Coles Was Most at Home on the Playground
A colleague remembers the late Harvard professor and child psychiatrist, who died this month.
by Alex Harris
Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
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.
Harvard in China: Michael Sandel comments on the moral limits of markets
Remarks by Michael Sandel
Harvard in China: Barry Bloom, Arthur Kleinman, and Yuanli Liu on healthcare
A panel discussion with Barry Bloom, Yuanli Liu, and Arthur Kleinman
Harvard in China: connections in medical anthropology, ecological city planning
Ethnographic perspectives on caregiving and Shanghai urban development
"Networked" Web Extra: video and Web-exclusive sidebars on network science
Slime mold demonstrates the power of networks, fanning out to solve a maze and construct a railway map. Video and Web-exclusive sidebars to accompany the feature article "Networked."
Honors thesis plumbs meltdown
A Harvard honors thesis on the Wall Street meltdown is a source for an important new book on the subject.
Hausmann and Hidalgo find wealthier economies are also more complex
The most prosperous countries have economies that produce a variety of goods.
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.