More Quote by Richard Thaler

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for…

— Daniel Kahneman

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents…

— Orlando Rodriguez

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at…

— David Brooks

In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between…

— Ruth Simmons

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing…

— Robert J. Shiller

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and…

— Jonathan Haidt

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is…

— Michael Kinsley

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword…

— Richard M. Weaver

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

— George Stigler