Stella lives with her family in a villa in a medium-sized town in Sweden. She likes her job but her back is hurting. How do we measure her well-being? Increasing well-being is generally accepted as one

Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell

In recent debates about the ethics of eating animals, some have advanced the claim that if people cause animals to exist and give them good lives in order to be able to eat them, then even if the anim

Report on seminar 'Modelling Social Mechanisms for Knowledge Generation & Exploration' by Nanda Wijermans (Stockholm Resilience Centre) Over the last decade physicists have developed “social force”

Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract This paper addresses how to think about the permissibility of introducing deadweight costs (so-called ‘ordeals’) on candidate recipients of goods in order to attain b

In N. Marschner, C. Richter, J. Patz, & A. Salheiser (Eds.), Contested climate justice – Challenged democracy: International perspectives (pp. 59-71). Campus Verlag GmbH Abstract Earth is on a catastryet, there is little sign of halting the rise of global greenhouse gas emissions orstopping the extraction of fossil fuels. Against this background, in this articlewe re-engage with a recently proposed typology supposed to cover three modesthrough which effective climate action has been obstructed. These are, first,primary obstruction, that is, the spread of disinformation and/or denying the veryexistence of anthropogenic climate change. Second, secondary obstruction concernsmore or less deliberate obstruction via opposition to climate action and policiesvia, for example, reference to “the threat of deindustrialisation”. Finally, tertiaryobstruction denotes modes of living which, while not necessarily obstructingeffective climate change intentionally, concerns “living in denial”. Drawing onrecent research and examples, we revisit this typology.

Routledge, 156 p. InClimate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhä bring together crucial insights fr

in: European Sociological Review, Volume 36, Issue 4 AbstractWe ask if school choice, through its effect on sorting across schools, affects high school graduates’ application decisions to higher educatof higher educational programs applied for. Low achievers increased their propensity to apply for the ‘low-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to less prestigious, less well-paid occupations, and high achievers increased their propensity to apply for ‘high-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to more prestigious, well-paid occupations. The results suggest that increased sorting across schools reinforces differences across schools and groups in ‘cultures of ambition’. Although these effects translate into relatively small increases in the gender gap, the immigration gap, and the parental education gap in educational choice, our results indicate that school choice, and the increased sorting it leads to, through conformity mechanisms in schools polarizes educational choices of students across achievement groups.

Journal of Development Economics 166 (2024) Abstract We investigate the long-run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting (FGC) in Africa. Our empirical analysis draws on historical data o

2009. New frontiers in Microsimulation Modelling, Part III. Eds A Zaidi, A Harding, P Williamson. Ashgate.

Iwao Hirose is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy. His research areas are normative ethics and the philosophy of social science. AbstractIn order tThis seminar will be held online. The number of people who can join i s limited. You can check in a couple of minutes before the seminar begins. Do you wish to get reminders about our research seminars?