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05/05-12 kl. 06:45 Research / Social Science

Feature: Clues to crisis are hidden in the data

To prevent the next crisis we need a much better understanding of something economists call 'disequilibrium'. So the argument of Professor Katarina Juselius, head of Copenhagen's new Soros-backed economics centre, in this featured comment for the University Post

See also:: Billionaire financiers behind new centre; George Soros sees break up of euro; Financier George Soros to open economics centre

02/05-12 kl. 10:13

Gallery: Party Watch, CSS Year Party '12

The darkness of the night was lighted up by the many colours. Dressed in creative combinations, students of CSS and their friends filled the main bar Kommunen and the basement of building four. Partying till the morning light the dancefloor, football tables and the many mini bars were rocking.

02/05-12 kl. 06:22 Campus / Social Science

Party Watch: CSS revelry

The annual CSS 'Year Party' is something many students yearn for all winter. All that’s left to do now is gossip about what happened in the cellars of CSS. And browse the pictures

17/04-12 kl. 09:18 Research / Social Science

Billionaire financiers behind new centre

Two of the world's foremost financial speculators and philanthropists, George Soros and Jim Balsille behind new University of Copenhagen centre

See also:: George Soros sees break up of euro

17/04-12 kl. 08:19 Research / Social Science

George Soros sees break up of euro

Billionaire financier and philanthropist compares the European Union to a financial bubble, saying some eurozone countries are like the ‘Third World’

See also:: Billionaire financiers behind new centre

16/04-12 kl. 13:00 Politics / Social Science

'Spy' professor: Harsh PET methods

It is legal to work for foreign governments, confirms University, as professor in media criticises the Danish intelligence service for ruining his career

01/03-12 kl. 15:15 Research / Life Science / Science / Social Science

Tests reveal give-and-take behaviour

Economic experiments find out where your selfishness starts and your altruism ends

See also:: Myself, or the group, what will I choose?

29/02-12 kl. 07:18 Research / Life Science / Science / Social Science

Myself, or the group, what will I choose?

I flatter myself: An experiment in economics seemed to prove me a good player, writes our reporter

See also:: Tests reveal give-and-take behaviour

18/02-12 kl. 07:58 Campus / Social Science

New Social Science extension on the way

Now it is just a construction site, but the Faculty of Social Sciences will gain from an intelligent new building in 2013

08/12-11 kl. 07:00 Campus / Social Science

Out the door in fifteen minutes

Our Miss Average, Emma, has a high octane get-up-and-get-ready routine that would leave most students standing

See also:: Here is your typical day; Gallery: Your typical day. The graphs; Nawin from Nepal: I was homesick

01/11-11 kl. 11:25 Research / Social Science

Award named after Copenhagen economist

The late University of Copenhagen economist, Birgit Grodal, has had an award from the European Economic Association named after her.

15/06-11 kl. 12:11 Research / Social Science

Hard for your future boss to find you

New technologies like job search engines don’t, really, make it easier for employers to find employees, explains Nobel Prize economist to the University Post, who paints a gloomy picture of our current crisis

26/05-11 kl. 10:58 Education / Social Science

Demo action planned against library closures

As five social science department libraries are threatened with closure, students prepare to protest

See also:: Uproar as Faculty plans to close five libraries

20/05-11 kl. 06:00 Politics / Social Science

Uproar as Faculty plans to close five libraries

Students fear that a decision to close all five department libraries at the Faculty of Social Science will be carried out hastily, and without their consultation

22/01-11 kl. 10:15 Research / Social Science

Experts: Robin Hood tax on banks will work

A tax on bank transactions to help fight poverty and prevent future economic crises is feasible, argued experts at University of Copenhagen event

14/01-11 kl. 14:43 Education / Social Science

Political Science hires new boss

Lars Bo Kaspersen, a department head at the Copenhagen Business School, is now to lead the Department of Political Science

13/12-10 kl. 07:00 Campus / Social Science

Economists to save the world with statistics

Economists Without Borders puts voluntary student consultants in touch with charities who can’t afford pricey number-crunchers

11/11-10 kl. 16:00 Research / Science / Social Science

Team doctors doped up on competition

Sociologist blames sports physicians for adding to the problem of doping in sports.

See also:: China and US doping viewpoints at conference

30/10-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Social Science

Øresund Bridge boosts science ranking

The bridge to Sweden has made Copenhagen a better place to do research, a geographer finds. Now all the city needs is a little more money

14/06-10 kl. 09:47 Politics / Social Science

Students block entrances and occupy CSS (updated)

CSS Campus at the University of Copenhagen is right now under blockade by around 100 students. They fear that announced cutbacks will hit the Social Sciences hard

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