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What is the value of social science?

Clement Levallois (Erasmus), John A. Clithero (CalTech), Paul Wouters (Leiden), A. Smidts (Erasmus), and Scott Huettel (Duke): Translating Upwards: Linking the Neural and Social Sciences via Neuroeconomics. Seth I. Stephens-Davidowitz (Harvard): Using Google Data to Predict Who Will Vote. Filippo Trevisan (Glasgow): Social Engines and Social Science: A Revolution in the Making. Nostalgia for the natives: Jeremy F. Walton reviews Napoleon Chagnon’s My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists (and more). From LSE Review of Books, Maria Kuecken reviews A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences by Gary Goertz and James Mahoney; and Donna Peach reviews Social Research After the Cultural Turn. Why launch a new journal? An interview with Joe Sedransk and Roger Tourangeau, editors of the upcoming Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology (JSSAM). What is the value of social science?