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02 September, 2016

Marc Fleurbaey: Is social progress around the corner? Insights from IPSP

Marc Fleurbaey, Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University and Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values ABSTRACTThe International

Marc Fleurbaey, Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies
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19 September, 2017
Is social progress around the corner? Insights from IPSP with Marc Fleurbaey

Is social progress around the corner? Insights from IPSP with Marc Fleurbaey

Marc Fleurbaey presents some of the insights from the International Panel on Social Progress while visiting the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, September 2016. For more information abou

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10 December, 2024

Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings

International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & M. Hadler et.al.
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25 January, 2024

Lunch seminar: Working with ghosted labour in supply-chain and data infrastructure to generate counter-claims around sustainability

Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D, floor 5 (KTH)This is a "Brown Bag Seminar" hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm with Benjamin Gerdes, artistic researcher at the At this seminar, he will talk about his artistic research project "Ghost platform: Generating the "Complex image" of data, labour and logistics", funded by Vetenskapsrådet.

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03 September, 2020

How is 'Organized Crime' Organized?

I Organization outside Organizations, red. Göran Ahrne. Cambridge Core. The book explores how various social settings are partially organized even when they do not form part of a formal organization. It

Type of publication: Chapters | Rostami, Amir , & Göran Ahrne
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27 January, 2025

We are working towards a better future – with your engagement we can go further

On several key issues, societies around the world are at crossroads. How can climate change be addressed? How will democracy evolve in the world? How will technological breakthroughs shape our lives? H

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15 February, 2017

Sarah Fine: The outraged conscience of mankind: Asylum, refugees, and a human right to international freedom of movement.

Dr Sarah Fine, Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London. Abstract Migration is a subject which generates intense debate and disagreement. For example, there is a great deal of debate about whether

Dr Sarah Fine, Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London.
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25 November, 2024

Digital fist bumps: searching for datafication and digitalisation in everyday CrossFit coaching practice

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living Abstract The research presented here explores the nuances of data collection and sharing via digital platforms in everyday CrossFit coaching practice. There is a gr

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tucker, Jason , & Sandra Krugly
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18 March, 2019
Minna Persson

Minna Persson

I have an MA. in General Linguistics from Stockholm University and an MSc. in Migration, Mobility and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. At the In and . The topics of these projects span over several fields, but in different ways revolve around questions of social norms, values, and the mechanisms by which they change.

Master’s degrees in Linguistics, Migration
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01 March, 2001

Health and Wealth: the Contribution of Welfare State Policies to Economic Growth

Unlike economic theories and strategies of the last twenty years, this paper claims that health helps to create wealth, i.e. not only the other way around. It is argued that a human capital approach w

Type of publication: Working papers | Lena Sommestad
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