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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
Sociological insights of great thinkers
2011. Praeger.
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
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.
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
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

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

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.

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.
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