The Kone Foundation's Vuoden Tiedekynä is an annual award for an academic article that demonstrates exemplary use of the Finnish language. The aim of the award is to support and increase the appreciat

Mark Budolfson

Mark Budolfson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Geography and the Environment, and the Population Wellbeing Initiative, University of Texas at Austin. He wo

Dean Spears

I am Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director at Research Institute for Compassionate Economics. I am also visiting economist at Indian Statistical

I am a free-lance writer of non-fiction and fiction. I studied at Oxford (DPhil, Rhodes Scholar), Harvard (BA, summa cum laude), and Alief Hastings High School in rural east Texas. After that, I worke

Postponed. New date pending. James Fishkin, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University. Abstract D

Here you will find different texts written by researchers that are working for the Institute. All texts are not the result of research within the Institute's research program but are by theme and auth

Research on population change, ageing and the economy, by Dean Spears, researcher in the project “Sustainable population in the time of climate change” at IFFS, is cited in "The Economic Report of the".

The purpose of the project is to stimulate and discuss knowledge-based text production alongside the dominant academic formats, to contribute to more animated writing and readable texts by scholars, and thereby enlarge their audience.

Welcome to a seminar on personal integrity in the era of digitalisation, and Bruce Schneier's book Data and Goliath. The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. Main speaker:Bruce Sc

Hilary Greaves, professor of philosophy at Oxford and researcher at IFFS, is the world's leading philosopher of the long-term future, according to the American news site Vox. Among the work that Vox m