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Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures
Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Malcolm Fairbrother, Professor of Sociology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Stud

Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures
Research seminar with Malcolm Fairbrother, Professor of Sociology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. Abstract Why has the world failed so disastrously on climate change? Humanity has su
Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Katya Rhodescomes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Abs

Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Dr
Mark Jaccard: Economic Efficiency vs Political Acceptability Trade-offs in GHG-reduction Policies
Mark Jaccard, Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, VancouverAbstractThere are obvious reasons why for three decades most jurisdictions have failPublic surveys and observation of real-world GHG reduction successes suggest that explicit carbon pricing (carbon tax and perhaps cap-and-trade) can be substantially more politically difficult than certain regulatory policies for shifting the energy system on to a deep decarbonization trajectory. Nonetheless, some people have argued that carbon pricing is an essential GHG reduction policy, suggesting that sincere politicians must do carbon pricing no matter how politically difficult. But the claim that carbon pricing is essential is factually incorrect. Deep decarbonization can be achieved entirely with regulations. Regulatory policies are unlikely to be as economically efficient as carbon pricing. But not all regulations perform identically when it comes to the economic-efficiency criterion. Flexible regulations have some attributes that make them low cost relative to regulations that require adoption of specific technologies.This talk provides evidence that assesses both the relative economic efficiency of policies and their relative political acceptability. The findings reported here suggest that some kinds of flexible regulations can perform significantly better than explicit carbon pricing in terms of relative political cost per tonne reduced while performing only marginally worse in terms of economic cost per tonne reduced. Presumably, this type of trade-off information could be of value to politicians who sincerely want deep decarbonization but would also like to be rewarded with re-election so that they and competing politicians see the value in ambitious and sustained GHG reduction efforts.
IF in search of new Director
Since Peter Hedström will be leaving the Institute on the 31st of August, the board is now recruiting his successor. This person will be taking on the responsibility of developing the future work of t
Demographic and Educational Success of Lineages in Northern Sweden
Population and Development Review, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 491-512, https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12091 REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND socioeconomic status are inherited across generations, both in contemporar
Inherited Trust and the Economic Success of Second Generation Immigrants
Martin Ljunge, Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) ABSTRACTThe paper that will be presented finds significant private returns from trust. Individuals with high trust earn more. Greater trust lead

Success factors for effective labour market projects
Success factors for effective labour market projects. A comparative study of fifteen Social Fund financed projects.Research report 2014/7, 96 p. For decades, the Swedish municipalities have had a major
Research seminar with Michael Rosen: The Shadow of God and the Passage from Heaven to History
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and onlineResearch seminar with Michael Rosen, professor of political theory, Government Department, Harvard UniversityYou can jo