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Welfare Enhancing Marginal Tax Rates: The Case of Publicly Provided Day Care
This paper highlights the role of tax funding of day care for children and demonstrates that the optimal income tax should face all agents with the cost of the needed day care in order to earn further
Resisting assimilation – ethnic boundary maintenance among Jews in Sweden
in: Distinktion: Journal of Social TheoryAbstractThis article evaluates Andreas Wimmer’s theory of ethnic boundary making by applying it to the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, a
Rethinking intimacy: Semi-anonymous spaces and transitory attachments in Argentine tango dancing
Current Sociology, 66(3), pp. 356-372. doi.org/10.1177/0011392116681385 Abstract Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have tra
AI4People or People4AI? On human adaptation to AI at work
Ai & Society. Curmudgeon paper Abstract There is a disturbing discrepancy between the AI ethics frameworks that highlight the technology’s ability to promote the social good and the relationship bet
Emilie Prattico
Formerly Director of Development at We Mean Business My work explores the role of democracy in enhancing climate justice by offering a critique of political discourse that aims to restore its moral dime
Against AI-improved Personal Memory
In: Aging between Participation and Simulation, Eds: Joschka Haltaufderheide, Johanna Hovemann and Jochen Vollmann, p: 223–234, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677485-014 Abstra
Completed: Predicting the diffusion of artificial intelligence
A framework for predicting the spread of AI applications.
The predictive capacity of the social sciences
This is an initiative to develop principles and methods for a more future-oriented social science, by starting up a discussion among researchers in social sciences, as well in Sweden as abroad.
New initiative: Anxieties of Democracy
New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and
Completed: Anxieties of democracy
Is representative democracy in crisis? If so, in what ways and how is it possible to strengthen it?