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04 April, 2025

Is it possible to reduce the number of prisoners without increasing crime? Lessons from California

Venue: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm REGISTER > During Chesa Boudin's 2,5 years in office as San Francisco's elected district attorney, incarceration plummeted - the

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22 October, 2013

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

Tom Medvetz, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
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07 July, 2021
Olle Hammar

Olle Hammar

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an assistant professor in economics at Linnaeus University. My research focuses on issues related to economic inequality, migration and cultu, at Uppsala University in 2021. I have also been a postdoc at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics and a visiting researcher at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

P​hD, Economics 
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26 April, 2019
Emma Engström

Emma Engström

I defended my PhD thesis on predictive modeling of groundwater contamination at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Royal Institute of Technol

PhD, Environmental Modeling
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13 April, 2018
Malcolm Fairbrother

Malcolm Fairbrother

I am a professor of sociology at Uppsala University, and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I moved to Sweden in 2017, after spending ten years at Bristol University in the UK. Before

Professor, Sociology
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25 April, 2018

Non Ideal Social Ontology III

PROGRAM Printable program as pdf-file. 11th of June: Implicit bias Room: Meeting room, Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm 09.00 Welcome 09.15–10.30 Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS College) “Re” 11.00–12.15 Åsa Burman (Stockholm University & Institute for Futures Studies) ””

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21 March, 2017

David Ellerman: Reframing the Labor Question

On Marginal Productivity Theory and the Labor Theory of Property. David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside ABSTRACT Neoclassical economics uses the perfectly competit

David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside
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04 May, 2020
What does happiness data mean? Daniel J. Benjamin and Ori Heffetz podcast

What does happiness data mean? Daniel J. Benjamin and Ori Heffetz

In this episode we talk about happiness. Imagine you get a survey in the mail, and in one question you are asked to rate your level of happiness on a scale from 0 to 10. Let’s say you answer a seven.

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14 March, 2023
Paul Levin: What does the future hold for the Swedish Nato accession process?

Paul Levin: What does the future hold for the Swedish Nato accession process?

What is the current state of play in the negotiations between Sweden, Finland, and Turkey over NATO accession? Is Finland going it alone and, if so, what would that mean for Sweden and NATO? What can

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10 December, 2024

Homophily and Insularity Dynamics in an Echo Chambers: Computational Models for the Study of the Conspiracy Subculture in Facebook

Social Indicators Research Abstract The research focuses on developing a computational model (agent-based) to describe and analyse the structure and evolution of a conspiracy bubble within Facebook. Thedescriptiveexperimental

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , Russo, V. et.al.
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