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03 October, 2017

What can be understood, what can be compared, and what counts as context? Studying lawmaking in world history

In: Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg-Bondesson (eds.). Methods in world history. A critical approach. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Methods in World Historyis the first international volume

Type of publication: Chapters | Wallenberg Bondesson, Maria
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11 June, 2008

Demography and housing demand – What can we learn from residential construction data?

2008. Journal of Population Economics 21(3), 521-539. Abstract There are obvious reasons why residential construction should depend on the population’s age structure. We estimate this relation on Swedis

Type of publication: Journal articles | Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg
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09 April, 2019

Climate Change and Optimum Population

The Monist, Volume 102, Issue 1, pages: 42-65. doi.org/10.1093/monist/ony021 Abstract It is often claimed that reducing population size would be advantageous for climate change mitigation, on the ground

Type of publication: Journal articles | Greaves, Hilary
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23 September, 2022

Do Offenders Deserve Proportionate Punishments?

Criminal Law & Philosophy Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate how retributivists should respond to the apparent tension between moral desert and proportionality in punishment. I argue th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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09 June, 2015

Chandra Kumar: Racist Explanations

Chandra Kumar, with a PhD in Philosophy, teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at York University in Canada. AbstractWhile crudely and explicitly racist explanations persist in our social

Chandra Kumar teaches political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at York University in Canada.
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22 October, 2013

European Court of Justice influenced by politics

On the 4th of October we welcomed Daniel Naurin to our research seminar. Daniel Naurin is associate professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg and at the seminar he presented new r

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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.

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13 October, 2023
Claim-based distributive theories

Claim-based distributive theories

The overarching purpose of this project is to present a framework for claim-based distributive theories. Since scarcity is a ubiquitous societal problem, the project has wide-reaching relevance for society.

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17 January, 2020

David Miller - Controlling Immigration in the Name of Self-Determination

David Miller, Professor of Political Theory, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College Abstract States often justify their restrictive immigration policies by appealing to their right of self-determ

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26 August, 2021

Lena Halldenius & Moa Petersén: The value of cash. Economic injustice on an increasingly digitized payment market

Research seminar with Lena Halldenius, professor of human rights studies at Lund University, and Moa Petersén, associate professor at Division of ALM and Digital Cultures at Lund University. AbstractThe

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