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Continued Work or Retirement? Preferred Exit-age in Western European countries?
Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve West
The Nordic Welfare Model in a European Perspective
From a comparative point of view the Nordic countries have succeeded well in terms of poverty alleviation; however, last-resort safety-nets are changing. This study analyses central dimensions of Nord
The effect of number of siblings on adult mortality: Evidence from Swedish registers for cohorts born between 1938 and 1972
Population Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2016.1260755 Abstract Demographic research has paid much attention to the impact of childhood conditions on adult mortality. We focus on o
Jonas Vlachos: Trust-Based Evaluation in a Market-Oriented School System
Jonas Vlachos, Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm UniversityABSTRACTIn Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market oriented school system with liberal entry
In memory of Geoffrey Brennan
The staff of the Institute for Futures Studies is deeply saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Geoffrey Brennan has recently passed away. Geoff was a most distinguished scholar and a very val
Sustainable Population in the Time of Climate Change
Report from the research project "Sustainable population in the time of climate change", finansierad av Global Challenges Foundation. Cut from the foreword by PI Gustaf Arrhenius: I’m pleased to present
Intrinsic motivation and outer sanctions as drivers of prosocial behaviour
Why do we cooperate? This project studies drivers of cooperation, generosity and pro social behaviour.
Emily Jones: Afterlives: Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, and the Invention of Modern Conservatism
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Emily Jones, Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Register here > Abs
Workshop: Progress in Ethics
PROGRESS IN ETHICS Workshop at the Institute for Future Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, 19-20 June 2023 This is an open workshop, but seats are limited. Interested in attending? Send an e-mail to [email protected]:30 – 11:00: Coffee 11:00 – 12:30: Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland/Inland Norway University/Oslo), Tina Firing (University of Iceland), and James Norton (University of Iceland), “Understanding Philosophical Progress” 12:30 – 14:00: Lunch 14:00 – 15:30: Joe Roussos (IFFS), “When is agreement between moral models significant?” 15:30 – 16:00: Coffee 16:00 – 17:30: Ylwa Sjölin Wirling (Gothenburg), “A portrait of understanding as a nonfactive state”
Artificial superintelligence and its limits: why AlphaZero cannot become a general agent
AI & Society (2020) Abstract An intelligent machine surpassing human intelligence across a wide set of skills has been proposed as a possible existential catastrophe (i.e., an event comparable in val
