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What does happiness data mean? Daniel J. Benjamin and Ori Heffetz
In this episode we talk about happiness. Imagine you get a survey in the mail, and in one question you are asked to rate your level of happiness on a scale from 0 to 10. Let’s say you answer a seven.
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
Anca Gheaus: What does it mean to have a gender identity?
THIS SEMINAR WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 17. If you are already registered you do not need to register again in order to get the link to the seminar. Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher inter
Anca Gheaus: What does it mean to have a gender identity?
Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Abstract The concept of "gender identity" is at the core of heated current p
Karim Jebari & Emma Engström: Sustainable Agriculture - How Far Can Technology Take Us?
What would it take to have a sustainable world by the year 2100? In their research, philosopher Karim Jebari, and Emma Engström, PhD in technology, have analyzed a large set of potentially disruptive
Åsa Knaggård: Stakeholder interaction – what do we mean and how can we do it?
Åsa Knaggård, Phd in political science at Lund University. ABSTRACTThat scientific knowledge should be useful and that policies should be based on knowledge, are believes that today are increasingly en
Daniel J. Benjamin & Ori Heffetz: What Do Happiness Data Mean? Evidence from a Survey of Happiness Respondents
Daniel J. Benjamin, Professor (Research) of Economics, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern CaliforniaOri Heffetz, Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Samu
Ethics of coordination
We need new ethics to understand our duties towards others in matters such as climate change.
Four decisions that actually matter for climate change
Did you take part in Earth Hour last month? On the 24th of March each year a big part of the earth’s population in the most energy consuming countries turn the lights off for one hour to stress the en
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
