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Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Eli Cook, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Abstract Based on my forthcoming book with Penguin-Random House, seeks to redefine how we understand freedom and power in a choice-saturated world.
Are animals needed for food supply, efficient resource use, and sustainable cropping systems? An argumentation analysis regarding livestock farming
Food Ethics, vol. 9 Abstract It has been argued that livestock farming is necessary to feed a growing population, that it enables efficient use of land and biomass that would otherwise be lost from the
Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies
2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm
Politics as organized combat – new players and new rules of the game in Sweden
New Political Economy. Published online. Abstract In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organized politics has changed quite dramatically in the last couple of decades. The paper argues that
Politics as organized combat – new players and new rules of the game in Sweden
Stefan Svallfors Working Paper 2016 no. 3(Published in New Political Economy , Vol 21 (6), pp 505-19 (2016). DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2016.1156662) In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organize
Simulated epidemics in an empirical spatiotemporal network of 50,185 sexual contacts
2011. PLoS Comp. Bio. 7(3):e1001109. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001109 Abstract Sexual contact patterns, both in their temporal and network structure, can influence the spread of sexually transmitted inf
Information dynamics shape the sexual networks of Internet-mediated prostitution
2010. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5706-5711. Abstract Like many other social phenomena, prostitution is increasingly coordinated over the Internet. The online behavior affects the offline activity; the r
A popular misapplication of evolutionary modeling to the study of human cooperation
Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 421–427. Abstract To examine the evolutionary basis of a behavior, an established approach (known as the phenotypic gambit) is to assume that the b

Social norms for cooperation under collective risk
How could people be individually motivated to cooperate to reduce the risk of a collective loss?
The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology
2009. Oxford University Press. Table of Contents Foundations1: Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman: What is analytical sociology all about? An introductory essay by Peter Hedström2: Peter Hedström and Lars Udéhn: