Search Results for:
minimization
23 January, 2018

The road to civilization goes through threat and punishment

Do you frown at people who sneeze in their hand instead of in a tissue? Would you be prepared to punish that person by frowning at him or her, showing you dislike the behaviour? In that case you are a

Read more
03 October, 2023
Causes and consequences of environmental protests

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory

Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.

Read more
17 November, 2015

Wlodek Rabinowicz: Aggregation of value judgments differs from aggregation of preferences

Wlodek Rabinowicz, Senior Professor of Practical Philosophy at Lund university and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this talk I focus on a contrast between aggregation

Wlodek Rabinowicz, Senior Professor of Practical Philosophy at Lund university and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics
Read more
07 October, 2022

Toward a hybrid theory of how to allocate health-related resources

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
Read more
18 September, 2018

Completed: Good and just allocation of health-related resources

How should health-related resources be allocated at the population-level? This project explores some problems with conventional approaches and presents a new one.

Read more
15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
Read more
26 October, 2016

Social Exclusion among Peers: The Role of Immigrant Status and Classroom Immigrant Density.

Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0564-5. Abstract Increasing immigration and school ethnic segregation have raised concerns about the social integrat

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jonsson, Jan O. , Plenty, Stephanie
Read more
27 October, 2022

Ecocentrism and Biosphere Life Extension

Science and Engineering Ethics, 28. Abstract The biosphere represents the global sum of all ecosystems. According to a prominent view in environmental ethics, ecocentrism, these ecosystems matter for the

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim , Sandberg, Anders
Read more
16 November, 2017

Poor Kids? Economic Resources and Adverse Peer Relations in a Nationally Representative Sample of Swedish Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, First online, DOI 10.1007/s10964-017-0747-8 Abstract There is limited knowledge on the impact of economic resources on adverse peer relations during adolescence. This st

Type of publication: Journal articles |
Read more
11 July, 2019

Increased Gun Violence Among Young Males in Sweden: a Descriptive National Survey and International Comparison.

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, pp. 1-14, doi.org/10.1007/s10610-018-9387-0 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rostami, Amir , , M. Gerell & J.Sarnecki Edling, Christofer , , M. Gerell & J.Sarnecki Mondani, Hernan , , M. Gerell & J.Sarnecki
Read more