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12 April, 2022

The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time

Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.

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27 August, 2024

Ghost Platform at September Sessions: Dirty details of the clean startup chime

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm  Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist

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13 February, 2020

Establishing pathways to democracy using domination analysis

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 95. Abstract How does the order in which liberalization unfolds affect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the first

Type of publication: Working papers | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Edgell AB, Boese VA, Maerz SF & Lindberg SI
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14 December, 2018

Graham Oddie: What’s so bad about adaptive preferences?

Graham Oddie, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder Abstract Our desires and preferences change, but one particular kind of change in preferences has been singled out for opprobrium—so

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09 April, 2019

Climate Change and Optimum Population

The Monist, Volume 102, Issue 1, pages: 42-65. doi.org/10.1093/monist/ony021 Abstract It is often claimed that reducing population size would be advantageous for climate change mitigation, on the ground

Type of publication: Journal articles | Greaves, Hilary
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01 September, 2005

Family Relations, Children and Interregional Mobility, 1970-2000

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

Type of publication: Working papers | Ann-Christin Jans
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08 May, 2024
Martin Kolk: Low-fertility countries are responsible for almost all of the CO2 emissions

Martin Kolk: Low-fertility countries are responsible for almost all of the CO2 emissions

Do we need to reduce population growth to address the climate challenge? From the perspective that each person contributes to green house gas emissions and resource consumption, it is a logical though

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12 April, 2019

Asymmetry and Non-Identity

Utilitas, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp.213-230. doi.org/10.1017/S0953820818000341 Abstract In this article we distinguish two versions of the non-identity problem: one involving positive well-being and one inv

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina , & Per Algander
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05 June, 2019
Melinda A. Roberts

Melinda A. Roberts

I am a professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey and serve as the coordinating prelaw advisor for the College. Previously, I worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb in Ne

Professor, Philosophy
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15 October, 2012

Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending: a European comparison

European Political Science Review, Vol 5 (2013), pp 363-80. First published online July 16, 2012, doi:10.1017/S175577391200015X. The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Svallfors, Stefan
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