Disinformation campaigns 2.0

Propaganda and lying are as old as humanity itself and the post-print social media age has created a hyperactive environment of sharing information including lies. Disinformation and misinformation po

This paper studies whether Swedish fertility swings and variation in public expenditure for children are related events. Amongst the results, there are indications that the age group 25-29 is most sen

The History of the Family Abstract In pre-industrial Taiwan, an uxorilocal marriage, in which a man moved in with his bride’s family, was a familial strategy used to continue family lineage and to enhan

Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s

Kimberly Nicholas, Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University in Sweden. ABSTRACT Based on questions from high school students, Seth Wynes and I set out to identify which personal

This informal workshop focuses on four papers dealing with a variety of ethical questions associated with the use of age limits, especially in health care. Time: Wednesday, November 23, 14:00 - 18:00Plac The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Holländardgatan 13, Stockholm According to Jeff McMahan, we ought to save an individual, A, from dying as a young adult (e.g., at age 30) rather than save some other individual, B, from dying as a newborn, even if the latter intervention would give B twice as many years of full-quality life as the former intervention would give A.  Call this claim .  I argue that if we accept , then we must reject at least one of three other claims:

Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg and comments by Olle Häggström, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers. "The Price of Precaution: Evaluating Acti

Charles F. Manski On the 21st and 22nd of January this year Charles F Manski was in Stockholm, invited by the Institute for Futures studies to hold three lectures on his newly published book Public Poli.

 A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the