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21 October, 2015

Great expectations

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences), the foundation arranged the seminar "Great expectations", on the future

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30 October, 2011

Sociological insights of great thinkers

2011. Praeger.

Type of publication: Books | Edling, Christofer , , J. Rydgren (Eds)
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11 May, 2015

Great Expectations. A symposium on the future of humanities and social sciences

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is celebrating it's 50th anniversary and is organizing an international symposium on research at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm on 6 May 2015. Several international researchers

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is celebrating it's 50th anniversary and is organizing an international symposium on research at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm on 6 May 2015. Several international researchers have been invited to discuss research today and tomorrow. Moderator is the writer, journalist and broadcaster Johanna Koljonen.
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30 November, 2022

Population growth - how great are the risks and what factors affect risk levels?

The global population has increased dramatically since the year 1900 from approximately 1,6 billion to today's 8 billion. The UN estimates that world population will reach 11 billion by the year 2100.

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14 December, 2022

Fading family lines- women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Northern Sweden

Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Vegard Skirbekk
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26 June, 2018

The Role of Education for Intergenerational Income Mobility: A comparison of the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden

Social Forces, Volume 96, Issue 1, pp. 121–152, doi.org/10.1093/sf/sox051 Abstract Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Brita

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jonsson, Jan O. , Paul Gregg & Lindsey Macmillan Mood, Carina , Paul Gregg & Lindsey Macmillan
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24 September, 2021
Jerzy Sarnecki - Immigration and crime development at the national and municipal levels

Jerzy Sarnecki - Immigration and crime development at the national and municipal levels

Research seminar with Jerzy Sarnecki, senior professor of criminology at Stockholm University and researcher at Institute for Futures Studies. A large number of Swedish studies show that immigrants ar

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30 May, 2023
The Mimir Center for Long Term Futures

The Mimir Center for Long Term Futures Research

A research environment at IFFS with a mission to carry out world leading, rigorous academic basic research on issues regarding the long-term future of civilization.

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18 January, 2021
The New World - Martin Hägglund podcast

The New World - Martin Hägglund

The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur present The New World - a podcast series where great thinkers think (and talk) about the most pressing issues concerning our future.

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08 October, 2020

IFFS and Aftonbladet present - The New World

Karin Pettersson, Martin Hägglund, Georg Diez The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur are proud to present the new podcast collaboration: The New World - a podcast series whe

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