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
At HSPH, a panel of experts discusses the healthcare reform bills in Congress
A panel of experts, from Harvard and elsewhere, attempts to cut through the confusion about the healthcare reform bills in Congress.
Time to reform the M.B.A.?
An economics columnist thinks M.B.A. students need more context in their curriculum.
Scrutinizing facial-recognition ability
“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.
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.