International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)

Many wealthy societies face challenges and developing countries tend to attempt to imitate their solutions in order to end poverty and hardships instead of finding new models. Can we hope for a better society in the future?

Panel discussion - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

The greatest problems of the 21st century - climate change, terrorism, poverty and global inequality, among others – are not the result of external threat, but predominantly the result of human cho

In: Acker S., Ylijoki O-H., and McGinn M. The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on funding and gender. Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)/Routledge. Abstract Status as been descri

2009. Social Forces 87(2): 713–740.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is celebrating it's 50th anniversary and is organizing an international symposium on research at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm on 6 May 2015. Several international researchers

Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin, University Leadership Chair in Behavioural Decision Making at the Leeds University Business School, Director of the Centre for Decision Research and Deputy Director ofAs the climate is changing, effective communications are needed to help policy makers and members of the general public make informed decisions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. Many existing communications are too difficult to understand for audiences without a background in climate science. In this presentation, I will discuss the social science behind developing communications that better take into account audiences’ needs. Examples will focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, but the recommendations about how to develop effective communications are relevant for a wider variety of communication domains.

Is social progress around the corner? Insights from IPSP with Marc Fleurbaey

Marc Fleurbaey presents some of the insights from the International Panel on Social Progress while visiting the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, September 2016. For more information abou

How come, despite a series of troubling new reports and studies, the world has yet to respond adequately to the threat posed by global warming? In this article, published at the website Project Syndica

The paper argues that it is not sufficient to restrict calculations of effects of social reforms on individual welfare to income streams, but necessary to model individual behavior and thereafter calc

One commonly observed phenomena on taxation in Africa are regional differences and that southern African countries have higher levels of shares of taxation in GDP. Using a panel data framework and div