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23 September, 2024

Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland

European Journal of Population, vol. 40:9 Abstract We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility information

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & J. Saarela
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24 October, 2016
A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 3

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 3

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

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24 October, 2016
A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 2

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 2

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

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24 October, 2016
A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 1

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 1

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

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25 November, 2022

A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"

(Lunch sandwich will be served from 12:00, the conversation starts at 12:30).Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister here >What is it like growing up in a systWelcome to this conversation between Lea Ypi and Gustaf Arrhenius, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies and professor of Practical Philosopy. has been nominated to several prizes, and named best book of the year by The Sunday Times, Financial Times, TLS, New Statesman and Spectator.

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12 December, 2022
A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"

A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"

What is it like growing up in a system that is breaking down? Lea Ypi, born in Albania in 1979, is professor of political theory at London School of Economics and in 2021 her widely acclaimed memoar F

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11 April, 2025

Countering Across Contours - A Collective Conversation: Workshop, film screening and discussion

Venue: Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg A methods workshop, work-in-progress screening, and open discussion bringing together participants, media, and approaches from the three year artistic research proj. We will engage with group efforts to offer new visual approaches to hidden struggles within transport, data, and logistics industries—workers, stories, and vantage points that have been “ghosted” from dominant narratives. Through the concept of a collectively investigated counter-aesthetics we will examine how art practices embedded within or alongside labour organizing and social movements, seeing and sensing systems of power, production, and resistance. Beyond basic introductions of why we need different forms of public engagement with logistics, the conversation will connect sites and contexts from the Nordics to Southern Europe to the Middle East, asking for example how struggles against Amazon connect cross-border to struggles for Gaza.We welcome guests—a mix of workers, organizers, artists and ad hoc researchers—from near and far.Participants:• Michele Amaglio, artist (Bologna)• Bahaleen Collective (Aya Besio, Noura Salem, Elia El Khazen) (Jordan)• Peppe Dalesio, organizer, S.I.Cobas (Naples)• Benjamin Gerdes, artist and organizer, Ghost Platform (Stockholm)• Magda Malinowska, filmmaker, worker, and organizer, Amazon Workers International & OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poznań)• Robert Ochshorn, software engineer and media researcher (Brussels)***The workshop is open to everyone. Artists, students, activists, researchers and logistics, data, and transportation workers are particularly invited to participate.Language: EnglishAfter the program, Skogen invites everyone to participate in a communal dinner. Skogen has no set ticket fee, but we take in donations for art, workshops, food.With the support of: Vetenskapsrådet, Nordisk Kultur Fond, and Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.

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20 January, 2020
A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius podcast

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

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03 September, 2020

We're All Behavioral Economists Now

Journal of Economic Methodology 26(3), 195-207 Abstract Behavioral economics has long defined itself in opposition to neoclassical economics, but recent developments suggest a synthesis may be on the hor

Type of publication: Journal articles | Angner, Erik
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04 May, 2021

Does Climate Change Policy Depend Importantly on Population Ethics? Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy

I Budolfson, M, McPherson, Tristram & D. Plunkett (eds), Philosophy and Climate Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. From the introduction [...] we believe that philosophical work on climat

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf , & M. Budolfson Spears, Dean , & M. Budolfson
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