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Calls for 2 PhD positions in a research program on partnerships for sustainable development
Calls for 2 PhD positions in a new research program Transformative Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Assessing synerg...
New episode of The New World: Capitalism after the pandemic
Historian Adam Tooze is the guest in the second episode of The New World - a podcast from the Institute for Futures Studies a...
Disinformation campaigns 2.0
Propaganda and lying are as old as humanity itself and the post-print social media age has created a hyperactive environment ...
IFFS and Aftonbladet present - The New World
Karin Pettersson, Martin Hägglund, Georg Diez The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur are proud t...
What do immigrants know about Sweden?
The degree of trust in a country has proven to be important for many reasons. The population in the Nordic countries has far ...
20 MSEK to research program on Agenda 2030
The project Transformative partnership for sustainable development, led by Karin Bäckstrand, has been granted 20 million SEK ...
Myths and truths about "the experiment"
In an article at Behavioural Public Policy Blog, Erik Angner and Gustaf Arrhenius puts the Swedish response to Covid-19, seen...
Where there is trust, there is testing
In the US, levels of Covid-19 testing have varied greatly between states. But there seems to be a pattern. According to a new...
Three Mistakes in the Moral Reasoning About the Covid-19 Pandemic
Orri Stefánsson, philosopher at the Institute for Futures Studies and decision theorist, dissects the moral reasoning about t...
The coronavirus, mortality and life expectancy
A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic tha...