Understanding Society

Technologies and technology systems have deep and pervasive effects on the human beings who live within their reach. How do normative pr...

Earlier posts have focused on the role of inadequate regulatory oversight as part of the tragedy of the Boeing 737 MAX ( link , link ). ...

I've been interested in the economic history of capitalism since the 1970s, and there are a few titles that stand out in my memory...

The discipline of experimental economics is now a familiar one. It is a field that attempts to probe and test the behavioral assum...

It is of both intellectual and practical interest to understand how organizations function and how the actors within them choose the ac...

We think of artifacts as being "functional" in a specific sense: their characteristics are well designed and adjusted for thei...

An increasingly pressing consequence of climate change is the rising threat of flood in coastal and riverine communities. And yet a co...

An earlier post highlighted Alexandre Kojève's presentation of Hegel's rich conception of labor, freedom, and human self-creati...

The Federal agency responsible for investigating chemical and petrochemical accidents in the United States is the Chemical Safety Board ...