Science Odyssey: Can Economics and Political Science Make Sense of the American Morass?

By Clay Farris Naff

Following a week of political agony and financial turmoil, we turn to the social sciences to try to make sense of what strikes many as irrational behavior among politicians and investors.

In Part 1 we hear from economist Michael Goldberg, Roland H. O'Neal Professor in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. In Part 2, we hear from political scientist John Hibbing, the Foundation Regents University Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Policon, Part 1

Policon, Part 2

Clay Farris Naff is (claynaff.com) is a science author and blogger whose weekly radio program, Science Odyssey, airs Saturday mornings from 8:30 to 9 a.m. CST on KZUM, Lincoln's community radio station. You can hear it over the air at 89.3 FM or on the web live at kzum.org. Clay's science and religion blog on the Huffington Post can be seen here.