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Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. ABSTRACT In this lecture I study fertility choice in the face of socio-ecological constraints. I assume that when cho

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What decisions should be made with the democratic method? The core question of this project is: Who should have a right to take part in which decisions?

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.  Research seminar with Lea Ypi, Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an

Lea Ypi: Can beauty save the world? On historical injustice, reconciliation and aesthetic education

'Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem The Gods of Greece. He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this le

Nature Human Behavior, one of the most influential social science journals, is now publishing a groundbreaking study from a Swedish team of researchers that answers several critical questions on how public opinion changes on moral issues, such as: How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? Why has the public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favor of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtually unchanged on other contested issues such as abortion rights? And is it possible to create a scientific model that can predict public opinion changes on moral issues?