banks
Think Tanks in the American Field of Power - CANCELLED
Tom Medvetz, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego To Tom Medvetz at University of California Registration for the research seminars. The research seminars are free of charge and t
Think-Tanks, Political Parties and Policy-Making in Post-Communist States: A Research Agenda
Professor Li Bennich-Björkman, Department of Political Science, Uppsala University Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s se
John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change
The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?
The Future of Inequality
The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The dramatic increase in inequality in advanced capitalist countries is closely related to decl
A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius
Reducing emissions and combatting climate change now will be of huge value for the coming generations. In principle this value could be used to fund the huge green investment loans needed today in ord
Money of the future
Most of this seminar will be in Swedish. One of the presentations, however, will be in English. In Sweden the amounts of payments made with cash are decreasing and it has been claimed that in 2030 we w
Learning to play
In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles
Completed: Where corporate networks are born. A longitudinal study of gender differences in social networks in elite business education, and their long-term career affects
This project will examine how companies' elite social networks are formed and developed over time by studying how men and women network at a business school in Finland.
Christina Garsten: Futures by Proxy: Anticipatory Governance amongst Policy Professionals
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Christina Garsten, Principal of SCAS and Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm and Uppsala Un
Contribute to the global research initiativ IPSP!
The first draft of the report of the International Panel of Social Progress (IPSP), "Rethinking Society for the 21st Century", is out now! We welcome you to comment on the online platform https://comme
