Our Scans · (ZY.4.26) Sociology · Weekly Summary

• A leading think tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has warned there is a 60% chance of a UK recession at the end of 2024. The Guardian
• Soaring inflation compounded by the war in Ukraine will see many families hit with food and energy bills greater than their disposable income, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research estimates. walesonline
• The domestic Irish economy - measured by modified domestic demand, which strips out some of the ways multinationals can distort activity - is forecast by the Economic and Social Research Institute to expand by 2% in 2024, following 0.6% growth in 2023. The Irish Times
• Funded by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council, the ground-breaking Generation New Era study will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. UCL News
• Forecasts from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research predict lower UK economic growth due to higher global interest rates. SKY
• Not because programs such as OpenAI's GPT-3 language program are human-like, but because the low bar to interacting on social media has redefined what we might accept as human behavior. ZDNet
• Over a century of enormously destructive religious wars in Europe convinced everyone that social theory could not be built on religious foundations. Real-World Economics Review Blog
• Five major shifts in human behavior will shape the world coming into the new year. BusinessWorld Online
• In a few years, IoB will become an ecosystem that will define human behavior in the digital world. Techvice
• 2021 will almost certainly be a big reset for human behavior across advanced economies. PR Daily
• The challenge in risk forecasting, and indeed the key geopolitical threat the world is facing in 2020, is the unpredictability of both black swan events and human behavior. Luminae Group

Last updated: 31 October 2025