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In qualitative research building a rapport and friendships with participants is often presented as a means to gain access and data from research participants. However, as …
Duncan Green reports on lessons learned from delivering an 'influencing' training course for senior leaders in the aid sector.
Well that was intense. We’ve just come to the end of…
Over 50 Chief Economists from all over the world have shared their views on the global economy in the World Economic Forum's Chief Economist Outlook report.
Inflation, growth…
Juliet Parker, Director of ALNAP (the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action), summarizes its new State of the…
Jolanta Burke explores research which suggests COVID triggered a great shifts in our personalities.
For many of us, some personality traits stay the same throughout our…
Learning to Do Research: It Starts at a Party!
In the early stages of a research project, is it better to formalize your research methods or to stay informal and exploratory? How…
From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis by Marco Grasso. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press 2022. 368 pp., $40 paperback…
Chris Hobson argues that without a heavy reliance on technology, there truly isn’t a viable way forward for healthcare.
As the US healthcare system creaked under the strain of the…
A number of pseudo-academic tendencies in Russian social science helped prepare the Ukraine War. In addition to propaganda and disinformation campaigns by the Kremlin, an…
Duncan Green on an issue all too common yet often undiscussed.
Imposter Syndrome – doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. (Almost) everyone has it, even old lags like…
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan. London: WH Allen 2021. 480 pp., £14.99 paperback 9780753559017, £9.99 e-book 9780753559031
Discussions of…
Deborah Barros Leal Farias explains why Brazil and Peru are among the next likely members of the OECD.
This past June, the Organization Economic Co-Operation and…
Conflict, War, and Revolution: The Problem of Politics in International Political Thought. Paul Kelly. LSE Press. 2022.
In Conflict, War, and Revolution: The Problem of Politics…
Just been skimming an interesting new paper by Caroline Dommen, with an ambitious purpose – to brand and describe a new branch of economics – Human Rights Economics (HRE).
Her…
Understanding the human mind and behaviour lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterise how people’s behaviour changes over time, I believe psychology…