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Completed: Preferences for coordination - their function and evolutionary foundation
Using behavioral game theory, this project aims to provide a deeper understanding of how collective action decisions are made and why people make the choices they do.
Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions: A characterization
Economic Letters, vol. 203 Abstract Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CL
Injunctive Versus Functional Inferences From Descriptive Norms Comment on Gelfand and Harrington
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 0022022115605387. Abstract Cialdini has argued that whereas injunctive norms motivate behavior by their promise of social sanctions, descriptive norms motivate beha
What is risk aversion?
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx035 Abstract According to the orthodox treatment of risk preferences in decision theory, they are to be explained in terms of th
Counterfactual Desirability
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(2), 2017: 485-533. Abstract The desirability of what actually occurs is often influenced by what could have been. Preferences based on such value de

Solidarity in diverse societies - interview with Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka, researcher in political philosophy, is interviewed by Gustaf Arrhenius, director of the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. The topic is multiculturalism and the welfare state.

Corrie Hammar
I belong to serval different functions and research groups at the Institute for Futures Studies. The three main groups I work for are led by Pontus Strimling, Anna Tyllström and Stefan Svallfors. Within t
Matthew Adler: Prioritarianism and climate change
Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy ABSTRACTPrioritarianism is the equitable counterpart to utilitarianism. Rather than merely ad
Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered
Utilitas Abstract According to positive egalitarianism, not only do relations of inequality have negative value, as negative egalitarians claim, but relations of equality also have positive value. The eg

Offentliga samtal: Hur påverkar de starka berättelserna oss?
I seminarieserien Offentliga samtal – forskare möter praktiker bjuder vi in två forskare som presenterar sina resultat kring ett aktuellt ämne, för att sedan möta praktiker i ett samtal inför publik.