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Shaking up the social sciences….

jlolds computational social sciences, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Nicholas A. Christakis July 23, 2013 1 Minute

Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis advocates for change in the social sciences in the pages of the NYT here. Christakis is co-director of Yale’s Institute for Network Science. Money quote:

For the past century, people have looked to the physical and biological sciences to solve important problems. The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today’s intellectual challenges.

I would submit that Krasnow’s own department of Computational Social Sciences represents just such an evolution.

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Published by jlolds

Native Angeleno, professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University View all posts by jlolds

Published July 23, 2013

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