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Funding received for research projects about democracy and equality
Last week the institute was granted 8 million SEK by the Wallenberg Foundations for two research projects that will go on for four years. The boundary problem in democratic theory. Gustaf Arrhenius was g
Gustaf Arrhenius receives prolonged appointment as director of the institute
What sets the framework for the research at the Institute for Futures Studies is research programs, created by the director. The current one, What future? Challenges and choices in the 21st century(201
Josef Hien receives prize for his paper on culture and tax avoidance
Why are Italians so reluctant to pay taxes? This is what Josef Hien explores in his paper "Culture and tax avoidance: the Italian case" - for which he has now been awarded the2022 Herbert Gottweis Prize for Best Paper of 2021 by the Critical Policy Studies awards committee.
Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest
Symposium on the ethics of economic ordeals: Introduction
Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract Economic ordeals are allocation mechanisms that impose non-financial ‘deadweight costs to qualify for a transfer’ (Nichols and Zeckhauser 1982: 372). Examples include
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Anandi Hattiangadi: TBA
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Anandi Hattiangadi, professor of philosophy at Stockholm University and a researcher at the Institute
Klaus Georg Hansen: TBA
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Klaus Georg Hansen, PhD in Colonial History and modern society of Greenland.He is an independent film
Victor Galaz: TBA
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Victor Galaz, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm
Ulrika Winblad: TBA
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Ulrika Winblad, professor of health and medical research at the Department of Public Health and Care
