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11 September, 2018

Consumption-based emissions accounting: the normative debate

Environmental Politics, published online doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1507467          Abstract The normative debate surrounding consumption-based emissions accounting, conceived of as a method for constructing

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran , & Fredrik D. Hjorthen
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18 March, 2022
Ulf Mörkenstam

Ulf Mörkenstam

 I’m Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. I defended my dissertation at the same university in 1999. At the institute, I participate in the research project "The territory of democrac

Professor in Political Science
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31 August, 2022
The territory of democracy

The territory of democracy

The presumption that the jurisdiction of the state extends to the borderes of a certain territory is increasingly being challenged, both by indigenous people within this territory, and by extraterritoriral border control.

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26 January, 2023

Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

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01 February, 2012

The prescription of oral contraceptives and its relation to the incidence of Chlamydia and abortion in Sweden 1997

2012. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health February 40: 85-91.

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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27 August, 2021

Eva Erman: Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance

Research seminar with Eva Erman. AbstractThe study of the social and ethical impact of AI is still in its infancy and contributions to the field have to keep up with the continuous developments of the important procedural aspects of good AI governance. One of the most important properties of good governance is political legitimacy. Starting out from the assumption that AI governance should be seen as global in scope, this paper has a twofold aim: a) to develop a theoretical framework for theorizing the political legitimacy of global AI governance and b) to demonstrate how it can be used as a critical yardstick for assessing the (lack of) legitimacy of actual instances of AI governance. 

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17 November, 2021
Eva Erman: Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance

Eva Erman: Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance

The study of the social and ethical impact of AI is still in its infancy and contributions to the field have to keep up with the continuous developments of the booming AI industry. Though it is widely

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19 December, 2022

Replies to “Can Consumption-Based Emissions Accounting Solve the Problem of Historical Emissions? Some Skeptical Remarks”

Ethics, Policy & Environment vol 25, no 3, 371–374 Introduction In ´Consumption-Baed Emissions Accounting and Historical Emissions´(Torpman, 2022), I argued that a move from production-based emissio

Type of publication: Journal articles | Torpman, Olle
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21 May, 2008

Intergenerational Public and Private Sector Redistribution in Sweden 2003

The paper describes intergenerational redistribution in Sweden the year 2003. Looking over the whole life, the summed per capita consumption from both the private and public side is quite smooth until

Type of publication: Working papers |
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