Ubiquitous yet nowhere to be found: on the Invisible Hand’s success
Adam Smith’s invisible hand is a tremendously successful metaphor. Quotes abound to state how important and pervasive the idea is (and was) for both economics and social sciences at large. Yet,
Scientific aesthetics, sacred values, and interdisciplinary collaborations
Ever since I started working in research, I was lucky enough to work in interdisciplinary settings - starting with small research groups, up to an ERC-funded multi-teams collaboration.
I have thus
What it took for break-up songs to become cultural items
Gloria Gaynor singing I will survive
Some of the skills you develop as a PhD student were not on the program. Now two years into my PhD, I realize that I have become much better at composing nice
Why would Japanese spirits haunt toilets and ghosts hitchhike? [Halloween special]
After getting lost in the meanders of the Internet—well, to be fair, of Wikipedia— a grayish Sunday morning, I ended up in the Urban legends section, and may have found some ‘blogpost’
Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
One of my all-time favorite scientific papers is the ‘Academic Urban Legends’ by Ole Bjorn Rekdal, published 2014 in the journal Social Studies of Science. Very briefly, the author goes through