How should we value future lives when making decisions? This question is directly relevant to for example prioritisation in health care, population control, climate change, and existential risk (the survival of animal species and humanity).

Place: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online  Research seminar with Erik Wengström, Professor of Economics at Lund University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics / Helsinki Gr

Erik Wengström: Intended and unintended consequences of financial incentives

Erik Wengström, Professor of Economics at Lund University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics / Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. His research focuses primarily on how pe

Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?

The recent increase of democratic declines around the world has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises from democratically

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Decision-makers are in a hurry to find morally justified response

AbstractThe recent increase of democratic declines around the world -- what Lührmann and Lindberg(2019) have dubbed "third wave of autocratization'' -- has sparked a new generation of studies on the t

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.

A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se