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The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization
Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami
Workplace Sex Composition and Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis using Swedish Register Data
Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Available on internet: http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/09/1403494814529033.abstract The aim of this study is to follow-up on previous res
Climate change and affective conflicts
Sweden has just experienced some unusually warm weeks in June. In Spain, yet another heat wave is causing alarm. In a text published in the Spanish newspaper El País, philosopher Julia Mosquera descri
Shame or hope? How should we feel about climate change?
Is it okay to enjoy warmer summers, given they are caused by climate change? Should we feel shame when we fly? Is anxiety an overreaction, or a rational response to the current climate crisis? There i
Ethnic Differences in Early School-leaving: An International Comparison
Chapter 4 in: Anthony Heath and Yaël Brinbaum (Eds.), Unequal attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Proceedings of the British Academy
Kontanternas historia och framtid
Andelen kontanta betalningar minskar, och år 2030 förutspås Sverige vara helt kontantlöst. Hur hamnade vi här och hur bör vi se på utvecklingen? Medverkande: Hendrik Mäkeler, 1:e antikvarie, Uppsala u
Interview with Thomas Schelling
On the 7th of June, 2013 professor and Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Schelling came to visit Stockholm, Sweden and the Institute for Futures Studies in order inaugurate an international research conferenc
Migrationsdagen (in Swedish)
Människor har alltid rört sig över långa avstånd för att finna en ny plats att bo. Det finns idag många skäl att tro att vi kommer att fortsätta göra det i framtiden, kanske i ännu högre grad än förut
Fair Chance and Modal Consequentialism
Economics and Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 03, p. 371-395. Abstract This paper develops a Multidimensional Decision Theory and argues that it better captures ordinary intuitions about fair distribution o
A Future of Expulsions
Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p
