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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

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
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
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.
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
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
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
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

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.
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