Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg The Guardian recently decided to change house style and start using terms like Climate Crisis instead o

Wendy Nelson Espeland, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. Abstract Media rankings of universities are a relatively recent development. I will discuss the mostly unintentional effects of ra

Today we mourn the passing of Thomas Lindh, a respected researcher, an appreciated colleague and a dear friend. Professor Thomas Lindh has been a coworker at the Institute for Futures Studies for many

At last Friday’s research seminarKatrin Ausprung from the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University in Germany came to talk to us about her reserach on discrimination in housing marke

Is it possible to study emotions using mathematical models? Frank Schweizer is one of the resesarchers who have tried and he finds for example that we are quite nice to each other online. He came to te

Springer, New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50874-0 This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our

Solidarity in diverse societies - interview with Will Kymlicka

Will Kymlicka, researcher of political philosophy, came to visit the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm in April 2016, thanks to funding from The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social S

Åsa Wikforss - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

www.iffs.se Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University. She is currently working with the research project Knowing One’s Own Thoughts. The greatest problems of the 21st centur

Equality seems like a simple enough notion. It is about everybody having the same amount of whatever resources we care about. But is it really that simple? The American philosopher Larry Temkin tells

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