‍Evidence-based decision-making also requires reliable insights into the languages, laws, politics and histories not just of New Zealand, but of those other countries with whom we trade, choose as allies, or who might threaten our lives and tranquillity.

The disciplines that train researchers to produce this kind of knowledge are, precisely, the social sciences and the humanities. And yet in New Zealand, it seems, world-class research in these fields is no longer needed, and people are irrelevant to the economy.



Anne Salmond: Govt de-funding the mind - Newsroom

Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both bad policy and scientifically illiterate, writes Dame Anne Salmond

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