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Continue reading →: 5 Reasons Interpersonal Relations Matter
By Charlotte J.S. De Backer 1. We overvalue individuals. We live in individual-focused societies. We are encouraged to understand ourselves, improve ourselves, and pursue our own goals and wellbeing. Social science often mirrors this focus, explaining behaviour through personalities, attitudes, cognitions and motivations. Yet humans did not evolve and cannot…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Environmental Sociology
We are excited to share our new book, Understanding Environmental Sociology. This book is designed for senior undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the perspectives and contributions that a sociological lens can bring to conversations about environmental issues and sustainability transitions.
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Continue reading →: Introducing ‘A Research Agenda for Innovation and Development’
By editors Judith Sutz and Rodrigo Arocena In the periphery, development processes have not made intensive use of innovation; this is a reason, among others, why innovation has been underdeveloped there. In highly industrialized countries, where innovation has been a pillar of their development processes, environmental damage and threats to…
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Continue reading →: IP before IP: Exercising and Protecting Creations and Inventions before the Modern IP Regime
Our understanding of intellectual property derives from its modern legal framework, the development of which we play a continuous part even as we seek to make sense of it.
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Continue reading →: Has Economics Lost Its Soul? Rethinking the Value of People at Work
By Ulf Johanson and Emmanuel Aboagye In 1642, in the middle of the Thirty Years’ War, a captured field marshal was worth 20,000 thalers. A colonel was worth 1,000. An ordinary private, 8. Captors weighed the cost of keeping a prisoner alive against the revenue his rank could fetch, and…
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Continue reading →: What can Industrial Economics learn from Industrial Policy?
By Francesca Spigarelli, Lorenzo Compagnucci, and Dominique Lepore Industrial economics has long provided essential tools for understanding how firms compete, how markets function and how innovation drives economic performance. However, the world in which these tools were developed has changed dramatically. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the fragility of global value chains.…
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Continue reading →: The EU’s New Anti-Money Laundering Framework: A Single Rulebook, but a Single System?
The new anti-money laundering framework of the European Union promises greater harmonization and stronger supervision. But creating a single rulebook is not the same as creating a single anti-money laundering system.
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Continue reading →: Finding the Right Remedy for IP Infringement
Intellectual property (IP) is the body of law governing rights in, among other things, new inventions (patents), works of authorship (copyright), source-identifying symbols (trademarks), and confidential proprietary information (trade secrets).
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Continue reading →: Introducing the ‘Research Handbook on Social Judgment’
By Justin Landy We judge others every day. Should I trust her? Is he dangerous? Is that group of people able to carry out this task successfully? And so on. It is hard to imagine how we could successfully navigate our complex social worlds if we did not routinely make…
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Continue reading →: Building Resilience: 10 Protective Factors Every College Student Needs
Many people are talking about the increased mental health needs of young people today. The cited reasons for the escalating mental health crisis are manifold and include lingering repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased reliance on technology – particularly social media – that now mediate much of our…
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