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Deciding the demos: three conceptions of democratic legitimacy
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2017.1390661 Abstract The prevailing view is that democratic procedures are unable to confer democrati
On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa
One commonly observed phenomena on taxation in Africa are regional differences and that southern African countries have higher levels of shares of taxation in GDP. Using a panel data framework and div
Who is Deciding the Future Role of AI in Healthcare in the Nordics?: A Research Brief
Working paper. Malmö University Summary Over the last few years there has been a considerable amount of hype around the potential role of AI in healthcare. This has greatly increased since the COVID-19
The study pace among college students before and after a student aid reform: some Swedish results
Abstract In 2001, the Swedish system of student aid for college students was substantially reformed; the grant-share of the total aid was increased, students were allowed to earn more without a reducti
The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics - Interview with the editors
If we can affect how many people will be born in the future, what does that mean for our decisions today? Would it be bad if much fewer people would exist in the future, as an adaption to climate chan
Age Structure and Productivity Growth
There are two competing hypotheses regarding demographic processes and technological progress. One holds that a rapidly growing adult population stimulates technological progress, while the other hold
The intelligence explosion revisited
Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0042 Abstract PurposeThe claim that super intelligent machines constitute a major existential risk was recently defended in Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and
Non-transitive better than relations and rational choice
in: Philosophia 48 (2020) AbstractThis paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reason
Enfranchising all subjected: A reconstruction and problematization
Politics, Philosophy and Economics Abstract There are two classic principles for deciding who should have a right to vote on the laws, the All Affected Principle and the All Subjected Principle. This ar
When democracy reaches the workplace
Environmental degradation, poverty, exhausted employees. These are problems that could be solved by the market. Provided that there is economic democracy. In Sweden we take political democracy for gran