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01 June, 2021

James Fishkin: Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”

AbstractIs Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room” Register here to join the seminar This talk is positioned at the intersectionof two literatures

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23 June, 2016

Armin Schäfer: Political Inequality. Unequal Participation and Biased Representation

Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Institut Für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück ABSTRACTAs turnout has declined in many developed democracies, it has also become more unequal. Recent studies show tha

Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Institut Für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück
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18 July, 2024

Christian Rostbøll: Why Struggles for Recognition Can Harm Democracy: On Populism, Respect, and Esteem

Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Christian Rostbøll, professor of political theory at the University of Copenhagen. Register here > AbstractIt (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

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19 February, 2018

Resilient privatization: the puzzling case of for-profit welfare providers in Sweden

Socio-Economic Review, 2018. Vol 00, No. 0, 1–21. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwy005 AbstractIn this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been see

Type of publication: Journal articles | Svallfors, Stefan , Tyllström, Anna
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19 September, 2023

Ethics of Coordination

This is a hybrid workshop. If you wish to join, get in touch with Olle Torpman, [email protected] more information about the workshop, including abstracts, visitthe project website Agenda Wednesd10.00–11:45 Julia Nefsky: Expexted Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties13.30–14.30 Anne Schwenkenbecher: We-mode reasoning about our environmental obligations14.45–15.45 Vuko Andric: 

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07 April, 2016

Thomas Christiano: The Tension between the Nature and the Norm of Voluntary Exchange

Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona ABSTRACTI argue we can make a great deal of progress in understanding the promise and the perils of voluntary exchange by elabora

Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona
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19 April, 2017

A popular misapplication of evolutionary modeling to the study of human cooperation

Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 421–427. Abstract To examine the evolutionary basis of a behavior, an established approach (known as the phenotypic gambit) is to assume that the b

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , & Daniel Cownden. Strimling, Pontus , & Daniel Cownden.
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21 March, 2016

Mike Otsuka: How to guard against the risk of living too long: the case for collective pensions

Mike (Michael) Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this paper, I defend the realization here and now of a type of occupational pension that is collective rather tha

Michael Otsuka, professor i filosofi vid London School of Economics
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01 February, 2017

Karsten Klint Jensen: Future Generations in Democracy

Karsten Klint Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen. ABSTRACTIn this talk I ask whether the genuine representation of future generation

Karsten Klint Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen.
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24 August, 2020

POSTPONED! - New date November 25 - Olle Häggström: Bayesian and non-Bayesian epistemic attitudes (webinar)

THIS SEMINAR IS POSTPONED - New date November 25 Olle Häggströmis professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and a board

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