Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Abstract This paper examines the legitimacy of extraterritorial border controls, specifically maritime interceptions, through the lens of

Vuko Andric

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and associate professor at Linköping University. My main research interests lie in ethics and political philosophy. In ethics I am particularly i

Mark Jaccard, Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, VancouverAbstractThere are obvious reasons why for three decades most jurisdictions have failPublic surveys and observation of real-world GHG reduction successes suggest that explicit carbon pricing (carbon tax and perhaps cap-and-trade) can be substantially more politically difficult than certain regulatory policies for shifting the energy system on to a deep decarbonization trajectory. Nonetheless, some people have argued that carbon pricing is an essential GHG reduction policy, suggesting that sincere politicians must do carbon pricing no matter how politically difficult. But the claim that carbon pricing is essential is factually incorrect. Deep decarbonization can be achieved entirely with regulations. Regulatory policies are unlikely to be as economically efficient as carbon pricing. But not all regulations perform identically when it comes to the economic-efficiency criterion. Flexible regulations have some attributes that make them low cost relative to regulations that require adoption of specific technologies.This talk provides evidence that assesses both the relative economic efficiency of policies and their relative political acceptability. The findings reported here suggest that some kinds of flexible regulations can perform significantly better than explicit carbon pricing in terms of relative political cost per tonne reduced while performing only marginally worse in terms of economic cost per tonne reduced. Presumably, this type of trade-off information could be of value to politicians who sincerely want deep decarbonization but would also like to be rewarded with re-election so that they and competing politicians see the value in ambitious and sustained GHG reduction efforts.

The Institute organizes various types of seminars in order to discuss ongoing research , to spread new results and to encourage dialogue about issues that may affect the future of our society. The sem

The Institute for Futures Studies now has a blog named Framtider (Futures), a name it has inherited from a magazine that was previously published by the Institute. On this blog you will find posts on

Johan Mellberg

I am Adjunct Associate Professor in Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen (NHH) and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I received my PhD in 2020.  My research is focused o

David Lindqvist

I am a PhD student in Practical Philosophy at Linköping University and am affiliated with the project Ethics of Coordination at the institute. My research is mainly in Normative Ethics, specifically in P

Fredrik Jansson

Senior Lecturer, Mathematics/Applied Mathematics I am a senior lecturer in mathematics/applied mathematics at Mälardalen University and a research affiliate at the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockho.

Martin Kolk

I am a demographer with an interest in all major demographic processes (fertility, mortality, union formation, and migration), often with an intergenerational component. I am also interested in if the

Pol Campos-Mercade

I use randomized controlled-trials (RCT), lab experiments, and theory to investigate issues related to education, health, and behavioral economics. I am especially interested in studying how incentive