Understanding Society

Key to understanding the "ontology of government" is the empirical and theoretical challenge of understanding how organizatio...

How does government work? We often understand this question as one involving the institutions and actors within the Federal governmen...

Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) have been broadly implemented by hospitals and health systems around the country as a way of inc...

Understanding Society has now reached its twelfth anniversary of continuous publication. This represents 1,271 posts, and over 1.3...

Allan McDonald's Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster  (2009) has given me a somewhat different un...

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...