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Mike Otsuka: Determinism and the value and fairness of lotteries
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and online Note that the speaker will join us online. Research seminar with Mike Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Universit
Cybercrime in Nordic countries: a scoping review on demographic, socioeconomic, and technological determinants
SN Social Sciences Abstract Knowledge of factors contributing to cybercrime threats is needed to plan effective prevention strategies to combat the increasingly common occurrence of cybercrime. This scon
Effects of Sharing Parental Leave on Pensioners’ Poverty and Gender Inequality in Old Age. A simulation in IFSIM
This paper aims to study the theoretical linkages between the design of the pension system and that of the labor market and their interplay in determining poverty outcomes in old age, particularly fro
Climate change: Life and death
John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The international community has agreed on the aim of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system. Determining what level of interference i
Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects
Journal of Economic Geography (available online) Abstract:Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition
Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 203, 2022. Abstract Many economic models assume that random variables follow normal (Gaussian) distributions. Yet, real-world variables may be non-normally distributed.
Andreas Diemer
I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also part of the Urban Lab network hosted by the Institute
Dennett's prime-mammal objection to the consequence argument
Theoria Abstract The Consequence Argument is the classic argument for the incompatibility of determinism and our ability to do otherwise. Daniel C. Dennett objects that the Consequence Argument suffers
Completed: Implementation of self-driving cars. Overview of challenges and opportunities regarding social and ethical aspects
The project aims to provide an overall analysis of the challenges and opportunities that the implementation of self-driving cars will bring, as well as a more detailed analysis of any of these problems.
Conservative climate justice for a sustainable transformation
The purpose of this project is to determine whether, and how, conservative principles can support an effective and just low-carbon transition.
