Resilience

  • Should Policy Makers Push for Supply Chain Resilience?

    Should Policy Makers Push for Supply Chain Resilience?

    Your Christmas gifts this year may be stuck somewhere on the ocean. The latest NBER research gives some tips for policymakers to prevent this kind of supply chain disruption from happening again. Over the past two years, you may have had a hard time finding daily necessities in a supermarket,…

  • Bridging social science, policy and community: engaged research

    Bridging social science, policy and community: engaged research

    If you ask a social researcher—psychologist, sociologist, cultural anthropologist—why they chose their profession, you might hear something like, “to help people,” but western social research is sometimes criticized for failing to help those who may need it most: groups on the underside of the power differential. When applied social research…