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Welfare Enhancing Marginal Tax Rates: The Case of Publicly Provided Day Care
This paper highlights the role of tax funding of day care for children and demonstrates that the optimal income tax should face all agents with the cost of the needed day care in order to earn further
Interview with Erik Olin Wright
Earlier this spring, Erik Olin Wright came to Stockholm to talk at our research seminar. He spoke about pathways to a cooperative market economy. The day before, sociologist Stefan Svallfors took the
Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation
Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic
Myths and truths about "the experiment"
The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.
Grounding the legitimacy of international institutions in personal and collective autonomy? Human rights, state consent and alternative standards
Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmInternational institutions make claims to authority that can clash with both personal and collective autonomy. At the same time, th
Climate ethics and future generations
Workshop within the research project "Climate ethics and future generations", 27–29 September. Audience members admitted by invitation only. 1st Day – 27th September 8:45 – 9:15 Coffee/Breakfast 9.1
War ethics and international law – a discussion with academics, practitioners and policy-makers
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military action against Gaza called "Operation Protective Edge", as a response to Hamas rocket attacks. The conflict brought to the fore important debates in b
Non-state actors in global climate governance: from Copenhagen to Paris and beyond.
Environmental Politics, Volume: 26(4):561-579. doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1327485 Introduction ‘Together now!’ was the slogan used in the invitation to the Marrakesh Partnership for Global Climate Ac
A Paradigm Shift in Plain Sight? AI and the Future of Healthcare in the Nordic States
Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research Abstract All the Nordic states (except for Iceland at the time of analysis) have published a national artificial intelligence strategy (NAIS) document
Workshop: Global Health Impact
Every year nine millionpeople are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people areinfected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most ofthe world, critical medica