Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling keynote speaker at the INAS conference

On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies. Thomas Schelling, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005 for his research on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis, will give the keynote address of the conference.

- Thomas Schelling's analysis of the segregation process and the link between individual behavior and the often unintended outcomes that these actions lead to on macro-level is an important source of inspiration for the analytical sociology, says Peter Hedström.

Schelling has also inspired to parts of the current research program at the Institute for Futures Studies, "Social change in the 21st century."

INAS meets annually and this year's conference will bring together 80 researchers from different parts of the world, to talk and discuss their research.

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