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28 April, 2017

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tyllström, Anna , , Rodolphe Durand & Nina Granqvist
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14 August, 2023

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

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05 October, 2021
Modern Vikings in the East

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?

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22 April, 2014

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.

Johan Koskinen, University of Manchester
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02 February, 2017

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

Type of publication: Chapters | Rudolphi, Frida , and Robert Erikson
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17 August, 2002

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

Type of publication: Working papers | Anders Karlström, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson
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16 October, 2020

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , & Matthew Wilson & Staffan I. Lindberg
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17 September, 2024

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.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Risberg, Olle
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07 September, 2015

Richard Bradley: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy decision making

Richard Bradley, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science ABSTRACTThe periodic assessment reports of  the Intergovernment

Richard Bradley, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science
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16 March, 2018

Completed: Where corporate networks are born. A longitudinal study of gender differences in social networks in elite business education, and their long-term career affects

This project will examine how companies' elite social networks are formed and developed over time by studying how men and women network at a business school in Finland.

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