How American Social Science Ignores the World

The international share of the American economy has almost tripled since 1960. The foreign-born share of the American population has more than doubled. The portion of paragraphs with international themes in the State of the Union address has doubled. At the same time, international themes in dissertations, books, and journal articles in the social sciences have risen only modestly.

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