Bo Rothsteinhold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. He has also held positions at Oxford Universit

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(2), 2017: 485-533. Abstract The desirability of what actually occurs is often influenced by what could have been. Preferences based on such value de

Erkenntnis, pp. 1-24. Abstract It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepti

Bo Rothstein: Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden: A Counterfactual Approach

Companies, that are owned and/or governed by their employees are on average performing better and have higher productivity than firms that are governed by outside capitalists/owners/investors and they

Economics and Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 03, p. 371-395. Abstract This paper develops a Multidimensional Decision Theory and argues that it better captures ordinary intuitions about fair distribution o

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22, 873–891. doi:10.1007/s10677-018-9908-4 Abstract Many legal, social, and medical theorists and practitioners, as well as lay people, seem to be concerned with the h

Synthese, Volume 193, Issue 6,  pp. 1967–1981DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0823-0 Abstract This paper explores the different ways in which conditionals can be carriers of good and bad news. I suggest a general

Social Science Research 95 Abstract The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for