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.
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.
A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises
Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
Tyler Moore explains how the bad guys take over personal computers
Phishing pits an organized criminal ecosystem against a jumbled array of private "takedown" firms, domain-name registrars, and ISPs.
Jill Lepore on Ayelet Waldman, Michael Lewis, and the cultural history of parent
History professor Jill Lepore's take on recent parenting memoirs
A professor with Harvard Kennedy School ties attacks gang violence.
A professor with Kennedy School ties questions zero-tolerance policing policies.
Sexual apartheid in medieval England
Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.
On the Medicalization of Our Culture
In a Humanities Center symposium, scholars outlined how the concepts of disease and diagnosis pervade ever more facets of our lives.
Harvard Economists' Take on the Financial Crisis
A new webpage aggregates the views of professors including Martin Feldstein, Gregory Mankiw, Kenneth Rogoff, and many others.
Save Yourself
Harvard Business School’s Peter Tufano says simplifying savings-bond purchases for small savers will benefit citizens and government alike.