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Generosity pays: Selfish people have fewer children and earn less money
Journal of personality and social psychology. Abstract Does selfishness pay in the long term? Previous research has indicated that being prosocial (or otherish) rather than selfish has positive conseque
Healthcare Rationing and the Badness of Death: Should Newborns Count for Less?
in: Saving People from the Harm of Death, Eds. Espen Gamlund and Carl Tollef Solberg, p. 255-266, Oxford University Press. In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss
A Leap in the Dark. From a Large Actor to a Large Approach: The Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democratic Labour Movement and the Crisis of the Nordic Model
This paper examines the Nordic Social Democratic parties’ own efforts to manage the inner and outer challenges of the so-called Nordic welfare model, i.e. how it is described, legitimized, and what ro
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David Owen: Refugees, EU Citizenship and the Common European Asylum System: A normative dilemma for EU Integration.
David Owen, Professor of Social & Political Philosophy, University of Southampton. Abstract This article argues that the practical difficulties and normative dilemmas at stake in the European refuge
Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation
Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic
Articles in Framtider no. 2/2005 English edition
This issue is about unexpected futures in five separate areas: demography, medicine, the environment, superpowers and technology. Contents Is it harder to foresee the future nowadays?Arne Jernelöv ImaginArne Jernelöv
An Egalitarian Argument Against Reducing Deprivation
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Volume 20, Issue 5, pp 957–968, doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9842-x. Abstract Deprivations normally give rise to undeserved inequality. It is commonly thought that one
Janine Wedel: Meet the new influence elites. How top players sway policy and governing in the twenty-first century
Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha
The dilemma of human enhancement
Would you cut off your legs and replace them with prostheses which can take you places faster? Would you take drugs to enhance your cognitive skills? Perhaps you are already doing that? In the latest