OUPblog, Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Shouldn’t society provide a safety net for all in modern society? The radical idea of ensuring a regular stream of cash paym

Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereInformality is on the rise. From remote labour and services-on-demand to food trucks and pop-up shops, its transformat

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i

in: BioethicsAbstractRecently, Perry Hendricks argued that abortion is immoral even if the fetus is not a person. He did so by arguing that causing a future child to suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Abstract I argue that normative formal epistemology (NFE) is best understood as modelling, in the sense that this is the reconstruction of its methodology o

European Journal of Social Theory Abstract In this article, the main focus will be to analyze the notion of mediation in an attempt to apply it to one of the major topics of our time: the increasing imp

Robert Erikson, professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. "Happiness or resources? On quality of life measures for official use" The seminar is based on prelim

Larry S. Temkin is Distinguished Professor at Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University.ABSTRACTThis talk explores and challenges several common assumptions regarding the assessment of outcome good

European Constitutional Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 567-583, doi.org/10.1017/S1574019618000287 Abstract Constitutional referendum – Popular sovereignty – Constituent power – Democratic legitimac

This paper investigates skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002. It shows that over- and undereducation contribute far more t