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Using agent-based social simulations to inform organ donation policymaking: adopting the Spanish approach in Sweden
The 26th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS2025) Abstract Organ donation is a crucial aspect of healthcare, yet, the number of donors is insufficient to cover the demand for tr
Ethical Challenges in Using DALYs to Inform Health Interventions: Some Lessons from Population Ethics
Institute for Futures Studies. Working paper 2025:2 From the introduction The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) is an international and interdisciplinary effort to quantify health losses from a wide
From Categories to Categorization: A Social Perspective on Market Categorization
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 51, 2017 Abstract The popularity of research into categories has grown in recent decades and shows no sign of abating. This introductory article takes
Julia Nefsky: Expected Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties
Plats: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmResearch seminar with Julia Nefsky, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto. Register hereAbstractThis talk brings to
Modern Vikings in the East. Sweden’s Role in 1990’s Russian Economic Reforms: Institutions, Elite Networks, and Informal Practices
What role did Swedish institutions, experts, and elites play in the economic and political development in post-Soviet Russia, with corruption, tax evasion and the emergence of the oligarchy as a result?
Theoretically and empirically informed agent-based models
Johan Koskinen, University of Manchester Theoretically and empirically informed agent-based models and how it may be employed in Social Science.
Social selection in formal and informal tracking in Sweden
in: Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison, Reds.: H-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholz, J. Skopek och M. Triventi, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, s.165-180. From an interna
The Timing of Retirement and Social Security Reforms: Measuring Individual Welfare Changes
The paper argues that it is not sufficient to restrict calculations of effects of social reforms on individual welfare to income streams, but necessary to model individual behavior and thereafter calc
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
Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics, written by Peter Königs
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism Review of Peter Königs,Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp.: 9783110750171.
