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Money of the future
Most of this seminar will be in Swedish. One of the presentations, however, will be in English. In Sweden the amounts of payments made with cash are decreasing and it has been claimed that in 2030 we w
The Future of Work
The future of work: the paradox of increased team production and greater inequality in pay in the knowledge economy. Main speaker: Richard B. Freeman. The seminar will be in English. It will also be r
Is the world ready for democracy?
Welcome to a seminar where we present the newest results from World Values Survey, the world's largest survey on values and cultural changes. The results concern several countries in the Middle East, A
The Future of Inequality
The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The dramatic increase in inequality in advanced capitalist countries is closely related to decl
Movie premiere! A New Society
Why do we need social progress? On July of 2014 a monumental task began as hundreds of the world's leading academics came together to set new standards for a just, secure and healthy global society. T has been tirelessly forming a non-partisan report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers in order to provide an architecture for present and future global issues and crises.
Educational institutions as mating markets: The case of Sweden
Juho Härkönen, Stockholm University Schools are considered efficient mating markets--that is, structured social settings in which partners meet--and feature prominently in explanations for patterns in
The Dangers of Ethnocentrism
Giangiacomo Bravo, professor at Linnéuniversitetet Humans often alter their behavior depending on the opponent's group membership, with positive (e.g., support of same-group members) or negative (e.g.,
Learning by Imitation in Games: Theory, Field and Lab
Erik Mohlin, Oxford University We exploit a unique opportunity to study how a large population of players in the field learn to play a novel game which has a complicated and non-intuitive mixed strateg
Symposium on basic income
The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f