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John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change
The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?
Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions: A characterization
Economic Letters, vol. 203 Abstract Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CL
Think Tanks in the American Field of Power - CANCELLED
Tom Medvetz, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego To Tom Medvetz at University of California Registration for the research seminars. The research seminars are free of charge and t
A talk on implications of self driving vehicles
Listen to our Director Gustaf Arrhenius'talk "Ethical, legal and political implications of self driving vehicles", held at the Transport Initiative Seminar at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothe
What we talk about when we talk about equality
Equality seems like a simple enough notion. It is about everybody having the same amount of whatever resources we care about. But is it really that simple? The American philosopher Larry Temkin tells
A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius
Reducing emissions and combatting climate change now will be of huge value for the coming generations. In principle this value could be used to fund the huge green investment loans needed today in ord
Book talk: How Economics Can Save the World
Economics has always been shadowed by a movement called "anti-economics", denouncing its practitioners, attacking its assumptions, rejecting its conclusions, and protesting its influence. In his book H
Talk about climate change so everyone listens!
In six months libraries and schools will once again be transformed into voting stations and the Swedish people will vote for the Sweden they want for the next four years. A question that has been on p
Think-Tanks, Political Parties and Policy-Making in Post-Communist States: A Research Agenda
Professor Li Bennich-Björkman, Department of Political Science, Uppsala University Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s se
Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?
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
