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Bowing Before Two Gods: Navigating Competing Demands

Marya Besharov, 06 March 2025

In the last two decades, the boundaries between business and the social sector have blurred. Early pioneers like Grameen Bank in Bangladesh broke away from using charity to address complex social problems like inequality and instead started offering microloans and other financial services.

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Words to Numbers

Florian Englmaier, Nicola Lacetera, 15 July 2024

When empirically studying questions in the social sciences, we often need to find numeric measures for “soft” constructs such as culture, trust, individual traits, strength of institutions, etc. However, most human interaction is not numeric, but verbal.

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