In this episode of the Policy Implications Podcast together with dr Abhilasha Sahay from the World Bank Group we discuss whether increased awareness of violence against women can increase the reporting of these crimes. Also, we try to understand why women tend to not report...

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live and interact with each other. We often speak of the “new normal”. This concerns our social norms – meaning patterns of behaviour, aspirations, attitudes. Norms can be visible (overt) and hidden (covert); if we behave...

To start with, I must confess I’m full of concern, and the future doesn’t look too bright to me. After 1989, when nobody expected communism to end, a crisis of trust in social sciences came about. After the 2008 crisis, economists – at least neoliberals – lost all...

“A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away” – wrote Albert Camus in “The Plague”. But it’s already clear that this “dream” will not go away soon....

The new normal is yet to come. We’re still at a stage of deep shock, deluding ourselves that everything will be as it used to be before the pandemic in a few months, even though the forecasts by CDC’s director or Bill Gates make it clear that in the case of Poland, things...

A transition towards a new state of balance (“new normal”) requires intermediate changes – which we usually feel to be changes for the worse. And we oppose them. A behaviour shared with the old, wise Mother Nature. Nothing changes until it really has to. In a similar...