Socio-Economic Review Abstract Ordoliberalism has been accused of being the ideational blueprint for Germany’s fiscal stance during the Eurozone-crisis. While the literature that debates the influence o

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Professor Bo Rothstein, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s semina

Daniel Hausman: What is a Fair Allocation of Healthcare?

Research seminar with Daniel M. Hausman, Research Professor at Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University. This seminar is arranged by the Institute for Futures Studies and Center for

ATTENTION!This seminar will be held at 15.00-16.45 (CET)/9.00-10.45 (EST) Register Research seminar with Daniel M. Hausman, Research Professor at Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers Univers

Res Philosophica 98 ABSTRACT This article presents an approach to how to make reasonable social choices when independent criteria (e.g., prioritarianism, religious freedom) fail to fully determine what t

Climate Change and Future Generations

What we do - or fail to do - about climate change now will impact the lives of billions and billions of people in the future. What is the right thing to do? This animated short film highlights the cho

in: Analysis (2020) Volume 80:3. AbstractA notorious problem that has recently received increased attention in axiology, normative theory and population ethics is the apparent ubiquity of what can be g. This paper illustrates how nondeterminacy can spawn cyclical rankings. So, accepting that practical reasons can admit of nondeterminacy challenges the widely held idea that ‘better than’ is transitive. As a result, standard approaches to rational choice under nondeterminacy fail to be action-guiding, since in some situations all options are dominated, that is, impermissible according to standard rational choice criteria.

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

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