"Social Sciences Still Young, Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences" (Harvard Magazine) (via @Beerkens)
Edward L. Glaeser is Glimp professor of economics and director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government.
Social scientists seeking an ancient intellectual lineage can find antecedents for economics, sociology, and political science in the work of Plato and Aristotle, but truthfully, the social sciences are parvenu fields...
...Yet these pioneering steps seem slow relative to the current onrush of new data that is now transforming the social sciences...
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