Harnessing the Hope of Social Science
A failure of imagination may explain why we didn't see the last year's political shocks coming. But while our capacity to predict the future is limited by our expectations, social-science research into the problems we confront today may be able to loosen such constraints.
VIENNA – In his opening address at the 2016 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, Nobel Foundation Chairman Carl-Henrik Heldin drew parallels between our current milieu and the late nineteenth-century world in which Alfred Nobel lived and worked.