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Continue reading →: A New Compass: Navigating Through the Many Faces of Inequality in the Global South
The concept of inequality has been evolving over the last few decades, it acquired importance during the 1990s and expanded during the 21st century, with a preeminence in the economic field. From the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century the study of inequalities was…
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Continue reading →: Why We Must Treat the Leadership Classroom as a Lab for Praxis
There is a persistent, nagging gap in our field that most of us feel but few of us have successfully closed: the space between the high-level theory of the graduate seminar room and the gritty, unpredictable reality of an educational leader’s day-to-day environment. As scholars and practitioners, we’ve often struggled…
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Continue reading →: Mixed Methods Research in a Mixed-Up World of Education
Mixed methods research in education and the social sciences is here to stay, and it is no longer in its infancy. n complimenting Bent Flyvbjerg’s ground-breaking volume Making Social Science Matter (2001)*, Sanford Schram (2012)* commented that, in contrast to the limits of natural science’s practices of testing hypotheses and…
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Continue reading →: Political Environments In Legitimating Assisted Dying Law
This new Research Handbook from Edward Elgar examines the many ways in which health engages human rights law. It also explores current debates which challenge traditional perspectives of rights and identifies potential new directions in which human rights law might venture. Elizabeth Wicks and Nataly Papadopoulou bring together renowned experts…
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Continue reading →: We Were Never Global: Rethinking Norms Beyond Western Universalism
We Were Never Global: Rethinking Norms Beyond Western Universalism. By Adam Fejerskov, Lars Engberg Pedersen, Meron Zeleke, and Dereje Feyissa
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Continue reading →: Beneath the Buzzword of “Interaction”
We talk about “interaction” as if it were self-evident — something everyone needs more of, something that can be improved, managed, or taught. In this blog, Melisa Stevanovic explores what lies beneath that comforting word: the fragile, complex process through which people build understanding and hold the social world together.
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Continue reading →: Inequality, Skills, and the Policy Crossroads: Rethinking Europe’s Social Contract
By Steven Dhondt and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage At the dawn of 2026, the central challenges of inequality and skills remain at the forefront of social and economic discourse. Yet, contemporary policymaking appears increasingly detached from the foundational insights of economic and social sciences. Instead of pursuing evidence-based strategies for societal well-being,…
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Continue reading →: Elgar Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists
By Giancarlo Ianulardo, John B. Davis and Ricardo F. Crespo We are excited to present the Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists to the economics community. This work is unique in its field, being the first to argue for the importance of philosophy in economics education. While we are aware…
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Continue reading →: “Why Bother?” Reclaiming Global Governance in Troubled Times
In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts to work together to cut worldwide carbon emissions or to bring about the end of prolonged conflict are pathetic at…
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Continue reading →: Global Inequality has Gone Local and Why this Matters
By Todd A. Knoop. The study of economic inequality is not all doom and gloom—there are some rays of sunshine to be found. While inequality between individuals across the globe is still massive, growth in emerging market economies—particularly within China and India because of their particularly fast growth and enormous…
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