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Parfit and the economists: A contribution to the debate on the optimal population size
Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 102, 23-37 Abstract This paper presents Derek Parfit’s contribution to the debate on the optimal population size, as it has been developed by economists. Parfit’s des
New book to further the legacy of Derek Parfit
In the new book “Ethics and Existence - The legacy of Derek Parfit”, several of the most prominent scholars on the issues raised by Derek Parfit, contributes 20 completely original articles. "Derek r
Lobbying for profits
If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countrie
Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics
Tim Campbell, Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics In: Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Edited by: Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, and Ketan Ramakrishnan, Oxford Unive
Population Ethics and Different-Number-Based Imprecision
Theoria, Volume 82, Issue 2,p. 166–181,May 2016. DOI: 10.1111/theo.12094 Abstract Recently, in his Rolf Schock Prize Lecture, Derek Parfit has suggested a novel way of avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion
Incommensurability, the sequence argument, and the Pareto principle
Philosophical Studies Abstract Parfit (Theoria 82:110–127, 2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion by introducing imprecise equality. However, Parfit’s notion of imprecise degrees of incommensurabilityeveryone
Degrees of Incommensurability and the Sequence Argument
In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Parfit (2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the Repugnan
The long shadow of lobbying: ideational power of lobbying as illustrated by welfare profits in Sweden
Interest Groups & Advocacy volume 10, pp.47–67 AbstractThe weak correlation between lobbying and policy outcomes is puzzling. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle is partly caused by
Lobbying for Profits: Private Companies and the Privatization of the Welfare State in Sweden
Working paper 2017 nr 1. In this paper, we analyse the recent history and current resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic w
Radical right-wing parties in Europe: What populism got to do with it?
Journal of Language and Politics, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 485–496. Abstract In this paper I discuss, critically, the literature on populism and the extent to which it applies to the contemporary radical
