Human Sciences

Why study human sciences? What are human sciences?
 * How could an important paper such as this one, with big implications for crucial public decision-making, not be peer-reviewed in the same way as a natural science paper would be?
 * What is the purpose of producing knowledge in the human sciences? Is it the same as the purpose of the natural sciences?
 * Is there a difference in the methods of the human sciences and those of the natural sciences? Is there a difference in reliability?
 * What is it about the human factor in the human sciences that calls for different approaches in the human sciences than the natural sciences?

The title was modest and the paper was short but its influence was enormous. In it, the authors, economists Professor Carmen and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Professor Kenneth Rogoff, both of Haevard University, suggested that there was a link between high public debt and low economic growth.

Human Sciences include: psychology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, economics, and anthropology.