Stefan Svallfors gave a lecture called:  "Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in Sweden” at Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin March 24th. Read more about the lecture. Read m

Peter Hedström gave an introductory lecture called "What is analytical sociology all about?" at a theory symposium in December about analytical sociology at NYU's Department of Sociology.

Professor Stefan Svallfors gave a lecture on December 11 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He discussed the terms and conditions of research from the individual researcher to the research team

Place: Register for this online seminar. Shortly before the seminar you will receive a link to the webinar and instructions on how to ask questions to the authors.  This seminar will be held in English We

The new wave of basic income experiments

Welcome to a seminar on the new book "Basinkomstens nya våg" (The New Wave of Universal Basic Income). In the book leading researchers on universal basic income (UBI) analyze recent UBI-related experi

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

Seminar during "Digital Health Days". Digital Health Days 2014 are held at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, on the 25th and 26th of August. Anders Ekholm, deputy director at the Institute for Futures Studies

The future of work with Richard Freeman

Last October, Harvard professor of economics, Richard B Freeman gave a lecture on the future of work and the paradox of increased inequality despite higher levels of productivity and teamwork. The lec

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

Working Paper 2016 no.1(Published in Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol 4 (1):55-69 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow008) This paper focuses on “policy professionals”, i.e. people whinfluence the course of affairs, while their working-life satisfaction comes from getting their message into the media without becoming personally exposed. The key resource of policy professionals is context-dependent politically useful knowledge, in three main forms: “Problem formulation” involves highlighting and framing social problems and their possible solutions. “Process expertise” consists of understandingthe “where, how and why” of the political and policy-making processes. “Information access” is the skill to be very fast in finding reliable and relevant information. These motivations and skills underpin a particular professionalism based in an “entrepreneurial ethos”, which differs from both the ethos of elected politicians, and that of civil servants, and which has some potentially problematic implications for democratic governance.