The last two month have been a busy time in relation to our ongoing mindfulness research. Rachel Lilley has been working hard to complete our 5th workplace based mindfulness programme with staff from Ogilvy Mather. In addition, Rachel and Jessica Pykett attended the Westminster launch of the Mindful Nation Report . This report provides a fascinating […]
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Cohen’s Homo Economicus (a book review)
Homo Economicus: the (lost) prophet of modern times by Daniel Cohen. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014, 155 pp notes and index, £16.99 hardcover. ISBN 978-0-7456-8012-5. Across the social sciences the idealized figure of Homo Economicus is coming under increasing scrutiny. While for many the deliberative, self-interested and inherently entrepreneurial figure of Homo Economicus was only ever […]
States, Languages and Behaviour Change
Professor Rhys Jones States have always had somewhat of a contradictory relationship with languages. For much of the modern period, states were concerned with promoting a homogeneity of form and function, not least in relation to language. The attempt made by the French state to promote the langue d’oil of the Ile de France, at […]
Changing Behaviours - An ESRC Project 