How economics can save the world

Book launch for How Economics Can Save the World (Penguin, 2023) by Erik Angner, professor of practical philosophy and PhD in economics. Economics has always been shadowed by a movement that has been c

This project will examine what behavioral economics and the nudge agenda are, to get a better understanding of contemporary economics and where it is heading.

Economics has always been shadowed by a movement called "anti-economics", denouncing its practitioners, attacking its assumptions, rejecting its conclusions, and protesting its influence. In his book H

The Franco-Swedish Program for Philosophy and Economics will arrange a final conference in Uppsala where a group of prominent philosophers and economists will meet to discuss issues at the border betw

This paper investigates the evidence concerning trends in youth relative pay and employment in developed economies since the mid-1970s, focusing on structural change on the demand-side of the labour m

Basinkomst – nyckeln till ett fritt samhället och en sund ekonomi?

Philippe Van Parijs, professor vid Faculty of economic, social and political sciences vid Université catholique de Louvain. Medförfattare (tillsammans med Yannick Vanderborght) till boken "A Radical P

Befolkningen är framtiden

Befolkningens åldersfördelning är avgörande såväl för de tillgängliga resurserna som vilka behov som behöver tillfredställas. Detta kan användas för att klargöra vilka framtider vi kan välja och vad d

Det hotade universitetet

Idén om att toppstyra universiteten vinner alltmer mark i förhoppning om ökad kreativitet, ekonomisk tillväxt och innovation. Detta trots att de framgångar som forskningsuniversiteten har skördat de s

Oxford University Press Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globaliz

[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo