These include as ethics, social studies, economics and political science, among many others.
Glenn is a professor of social sciences and economics at Brown's University.
It combines natural and social sciences, economics and education to improve human livelihoods and safeguard natural ecosystems, thus promoting innovative approaches to economic development that is socially and culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable.
Which path is best will be determined by economics and social impact.
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Oh, and what if that billionaire was himself a wildly successful entrepreneur who knew first-hand the power of market economics on social change?
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On every count security, politics, economics, social life Basrawis are cautiously optimistic.
The vicissitudes of show biz, especially its artistic uncertainties, social demands and precarious economics, are vividly brought out in A Ship Without A Sail (the title is from a Rodgers and Hart song by the same name).
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So if we look into Mervyn King's eyes and wonder what his nightmares might be, and indeed our own, it could be this: a situation where politics, economics and social unrest prove incapable of making the kind of switch that happened between 1931 and 1934.
The new group includes people involved in public sector delivery, social policy, accountancy and economics.
New economics, new social scene, new ways of thinking, speaking and acting, new world.
Enlightened government of the left, combining market economics with effective social policy, would not be a bad thing.
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But if there is a market opportunity in British politics, it is the absence of a party that dares to be liberal in both its economics and its social policy.
Economics is a social science that studies trade-offs.
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For the most part, he has made Labour electable by adopting many of the Tories' own policies and, just as notably, much of their attitude, in economics, in social policy, on the welfare state, in dealing with crime, even on Europe and the single currency (the official Tory policy on Europe, that is).
It is found more often being beaten up in the literature of social science than being celebrated in economics.
Even as social politics drift leftward, rightwing economics and anti-government rhetoric coupled with military adventurism have a strong foothold in the collective imagination.
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In reality, the only lesson to be drawn from this episode is that academic economics, like many social sciences, is grounded in hubris and pseudo-precision.
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Gisbert Glaser, ICSU and Coordinator of Science and Technological Major Group, observed that the problems facing the environment, economics, equity and social justice are intrisincally linked.
At least one analytics firm that specializes in the energy sector says that companies that focus on the so-called triple bottom line economics, environment and social are the ones that consistently do well by all standards.
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Jeff Jacoby, columnist for The Boston Globe, and Salil Tripathi, who grew up in India but now lives in London and writes on economics, literature and social trends for major publications around the world, were first and second place runner-ups, respectively.
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Transport projects are usually evaluated in terms of net social value, a standard concept in economics.
He pushed for a human approach to economics, emphasizing jobs and social indicators as much as inflation targets.
Mark Buchanan is a theoretical physicist who writes about how physics can be used to understand biology, economics, psychology and other social sciences.
Follow me from Kings Cross station, via the Port of Tyne, Newcastle City Council and a Hartlepool FE college as I doggedly try to get Lord Mandelson to define what modern social democracy means, if trickle down economics has failed.
John Hills, head of the new centre for the analysis of social exclusion at the London School of Economics, says that the challenge is to understand why people move in and out of low incomes, rather than just considering snapshots at any one time.
Her successful tenure as governor of New Jersey (she was elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1997) and her combination of conservative views on economics and liberal views on social issues meant that she was frequently talked about as a future senator, or even as a vice-president.
It was created after mathematics gave economics a theoretical underpinning that other social sciences lacked.
They are about more than economics: typically they are about social issues too.
The models cover in this class provide a foundation for future social science classes, whether they be in economics, political science, business, or sociology.
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Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology, at the London School of Economics, said the findings were a "good reason to ask why some children spend so much time watching television".
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