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?

Human enhancement - intervju med Karim Jebari om hans doktorsavhandling

Karim Jebari på Institutet för Framtidsstudier intervjuas om sin doktorsavhandling som handlar om human enhancement och riskerna med ny teknologi.

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

Journal of Public Policy Abstract Most people are concerned about climate change and want policymakers to address it. But how? To investigate which policy options are more versus less popular, with whom

The objective of this paper is to examine how family unions or, more precisely, the arrival of children has influenced migration during the three last decades. Both family formation and family dissolu

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to 2002, this paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed across age groups. It finds that the flows vary b

The paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to

A carbon tax would be effective and inexpensive – so why do people dislike the idea? A new study provides answers. Economists agree that a carbon tax is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce gr No, not at all, according to a new study.

In the 1970s and 1980s, conservatives were prominent in climate and environmental issues. Now, this political domain is dominated by the left. How did this happen and what policies aiming to mitigate

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