Acta Astronautica Abstract Directed panspermia involves the deliberate spread of life between planets by intelligent actors. While it was originally proposed to explain the origin of life on Earth, rece

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Martin Van Hees, professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Register

A Future of Expulsions

Saskia Sassen was invited to Stockholm on the 25th of November 2014 to talk about her latest book. She looks at the world and sees expulsion. The expulsion of people from their jobs, their homes, even

Global Environmental Politics Abstract Much existing empirical research on polycentric climate governance (PCG) systems examines small-Nexamples. In response, we aim to advance studies of PCG by explori

The main purpose of this work is to assist the secretariat in administrative matters including maintaining the web site, the Facebook and the Twitter accounts, organising events, editing the Newslette Fund-raising is a substantial part of our work and the person we’re seeking will also be asked to assist in this work (complete the forms, submit the paperwork and follow up on behalf of the association). All communication will be in English. The person we are looking for will be placed at the Institute for Future studies in the very centre of Stockholm.

Delmi Policy Brief 2022:3. Abstract Three weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine more than three million people have fled the war. Knowledge and predictions on the flow of migrants are important for

The objective of this paper is to examine how employers’ non-wage costs for their workforce affect voluntary early retirement, using the case of the Swedish private sector. The results show that a 1 p

Research seminar with Matthew Adler, Duke UniversityREGISTERAbstract The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between “person-affecting” and “impersonal” moral justifica

Economics and Philosophy, 33(1), 2017: 125-138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267116000274 Abstract Most people at some point in their lives face transformative decisions that could result in experi

Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. ABSTRACTThe quantification of the social is a mega-trend transforming social relationships and reformatting social life. Be