Frontiers of Psychology, Sec. Environmental Psychology, vol. 14. Abstract Climate-friendly food choices are still relatively rarely addressed in studies investigating climate engagement, particularly am

Success factors for effective labour market projects

Success factors for effective labour market projects. A comparative study of fifteen Social Fund financed projects.Research report 2014/7, 96 p. For decades, the Swedish municipalities have had a major

FOCUS, a EU security research project (Foresight Security Scenarios – Mapping Research to a Comprehensive Approach to Exogenous EU Roles) will be arranging a final symposium on the 31st of January and

Anders Sandberg

My research focus on issues of the very long-term future, technologies that can change the human condition, low-probability high-impact risks, and how to reason about such uncertain domains. More spec

European Journal of Political Theory, DOI: 10.1177/1474885117738116 Abstract How can we equalize opportunities while respecting people’s freedom? According to a view that I call libertarian resourcism, pbecome a powerful weapon to criticize work conditionality as unfair and perfectionistic (or illiberal), and to motivate political struggles for the emancipation of the precariat. However, similar views are also expressed in many other justifications of basic income that stress the strategic importance of exit-based empowerment. This article argues that the reliance of these theories on concepts and assumptions of libertarianism makesthem ill-equipped to justify core requirements of social empowerment, and to identify the forms of agency needed to sustainably advance the radical objectives they favour. The implication of this is not to reject the link between social justice and unconditional resource endowments but to dissociate the justification and design of such measures from libertarian ways of thinking.

Business and Politics Abstract What determines whether or not firms lobby on the same policy issues? Scholars offer two broad answers to this question. Firms that are (1) similar or (2) connected throug

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

International Journal of Public Health Abstract Objectives:Women’s healthcare is a potential source of cross-cultural conflicts. Diverging values between healthcare providers and patients challenges the

Social norms for cooperation under collective risk

How could people be individually motivated to cooperate to reduce the risk of a collective loss?

The objective of this paper is to examine how employers’ non-wage costs for their workforce affect voluntary early retirement, using the case of the Swedish private sector. The results show that a 1 p