Is Economics a Science or Social Science? Key Perspectives

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.
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Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessness

Dr. Kevin M. Passino was my doctoral research adviser at the Ohio State University, where I did my PhD. As a control systems researcher, I have long felt that control systems – and systems science in ...
The Conversation

Beyond the hype: How AI could change the game for social science research

Igor Grossmann receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, The John Templeton Foundation, and the ...
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Computational Social Science

The availability of big data has created opportunities to study human behavior at unprecedented scale and detail. Parallel developments in artificial intelligence, network science, and complex systems ...