Stockholm Research Reports in Demography no. 2020:52 AbstractThe world is rapidly converging towards lower fertility: in 2020, countries with a total fertility rate of less than 2.25 will encompass mor

Many things that we deeply care about are related to the topic of religion: gender norms, sexual morals, work ethics but also altruism, charity and community. It is therefore an important question to Contrary to what you might expect, religion continues to play an important role in countries all over the world, as the figure shows.

Games and Cultures, doi.org/10.1177/1555412018800650  Abstract Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Martin O'Neill, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of York.Register here AbstraMy talk addresses the questions of the size of the public sector in a just society, and the range of goods and services which should be decommodified, and provided to citizens outside of market relationships, in such a society. I examine some of the different answers given to these questions by (a) liberal egalitarians (particularly Rawls) and (b) social democrats and democratic socialists (particularly Esping-Andersen). Then, making use of the work of theorists including Waheed Hussain and Ralph Miliband, I examine the plausibility of a 'left Rawlsian' position, which would marry socialist insights about the functions of public provision with a liberal egalitarian account of the principles of justice, in order to defend an institutional model of a just society which would embody a form of liberal democratic socialism."

Limiting Markets: Socialisation, Decommodification, and the Sense of Justice

Research seminar with Martin O'Neill, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of York. My talk addresses the questions of the size of the public sector in a just society, and the range of goods

What happens in a nightclub that only exists in a virtual reality? What happens to interaction and intimacy in a world where physical contact is not possible?

Anna Tyllström

I hold a PhD in business administration, especially organizational theory. I am a senior lecturer at Uppsala University and previously been working at Score, Stockholm School of Economics, University

Institute for Futures Studies, working paper 2022:13, 23 pages. We know that informal networks explain differences in career success. Historical differences in business careers of men and women have fr

A lost generation? A study of long-term influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on business students and their career networks

What impact did the pandemic have on business students' social networks, and how will it impact their career possibilities?

Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University. ABSTRACTAll around the world there are ”leader communities”, i.e., places where leaders choose