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22 October, 2013

Professor Thomas Lindh has passed away

Today we mourn the passing of Thomas Lindh, a respected researcher, an appreciated colleague and a dear friend. Professor Thomas Lindh has been a coworker at the Institute for Futures Studies for many

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14 August, 2023

Julia Nefsky: Expected Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties

Plats: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmResearch seminar with Julia Nefsky, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto. Register hereAbstractThis talk brings to

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12 May, 2021

Ron F Inglehart 1934–2021

We are saddened to announce that the founding president of the World Values Survey, Ron F Inglehart passed away on Saturday 8 of May. He was the president of the World Values Survey Association (WVS)  

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18 July, 2024

Christian Rostbøll: Why Struggles for Recognition Can Harm Democracy: On Populism, Respect, and Esteem

Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Christian Rostbøll, professor of political theory at the University of Copenhagen. Register here > AbstractIt (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

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03 December, 2013

How and why do we discriminate?

At last Friday’s research seminarKatrin Ausprung from the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University in Germany came to talk to us about her reserach on discrimination in housing marke

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11 July, 2019

The Swedish Mujahideen. An exploratory study of 41 Swedish foreign fighters deceased in Iraq and Syria.

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1463615 Abstract This study analyzes the demographics, criminality, and network relations of forty-one deceased Swedish foreign fighter

Type of publication: Journal articles | Edling, Christofer , , P.Thevselius & J.Sarnecki Rostami, Amir , , P.Thevselius & J.Sarnecki Mondani, Hernan , , P.Thevselius & J.Sarnecki
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21 March, 2018

A Life‐Course Analysis of Geographical Distance to Siblings, Parents, and Grandparents in Sweden

Population, Space and Place, VolumLäe 23, Issue 3, e2020, doi.org/10.1002/psp.2020 Abstract This study makes a contribution to the demography and geography of kinship by studying how internal migration

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin
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27 February, 2019

Stable and unstable choices

Economics and Philosophy, DOI:10.1017/S0266267119000026 Abstract This paper introduces a condition for rational choice that states that accepting decision methods and normative theories that sometimes en

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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05 May, 2021

Following the Science: Pandemic Policy Making and Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios

LSE Public Policy Review, 1(4), p.6. 2021 Abstract The UK has been ‘following the science’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in line with the national framework for the use of scientific advice in as

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe , & R. Bradley
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23 April, 2025

Value by Acquaintance with Laurie Ann Paul

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Laurie Ann Paul, Milestone Family Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University. L.A. Paul's book Transformative Expe has sparked many discussions in philosophy since its publication in 2014. In the book she describes how experiences wehave not had before can transform us in several ways – we can learn new things,and change our views radically – which, among other things, has implicationsfor decision-making.

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