Biology Letters 17: 20210158 Abstract A widespread and popular belief posits that humans possess a cognitive capacity that is limited to keeping track of and maintaining stable relationships with approxi

Politics, Philosophy and Economics Abstract There are two classic principles for deciding who should have a right to vote on the laws, the All Affected Principle and the All Subjected Principle. This ar

Workshop talk: The Duty to Compensate for Injustice as Applied to Reconstruction by Derek Matravers

Philosopher Derek Matravers from the Open University reads a paper he has written on the question of whether one should restore or simply leave damaged cultural heritage after a conflict has ended. Fr

An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of the human brain sets an upper limit on

Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of

Journal of European Public Policy Abstract Christian Democratic socio-economic ideology underwent a paradigm shift through the Europeanization of its party networks. Christian Democratic networks starte

Socio-Economic Review Abstract Ordoliberalism has been accused of being the ideational blueprint for Germany’s fiscal stance during the Eurozone-crisis. While the literature that debates the influence o

This handbook explains the simulation model IFSIM, which is an agent based simulation model written in JAVA. The model is constructed for analyzing demographic and economic issues and its aim is to in

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Futures: Politics and psychology - how to gain support for climate policies

Combating climate change means implementing policies that will encourage people to act in a more sustainable way. But how can policies be constructed and implemented in a way that is acceptable to the