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20 January, 2021

Book symposium on Moral Uncertainty

How should we make decisions when we’re uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do? Very often we are uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We do not know how to weigh the interests of anim

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10 April, 2017

Basic income: A tool for justice or an unfair redistribution of resources?

What does it really mean when scientists and politicians are talking about basic income? Basic income is comparable to a general and unconditional income guarantee. Such an income guarantee is based o

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30 October, 2017

Power, policy and profit – book launch

With intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of provisions of welfare services and accumulation of private capital, opportunities for corporate influence in politics have multiplied. IWelcome to a seminar where some of the authors present and discuss the contents of the book.When: Friday December 15th, at 16.00 –18.00 including a mingleWhere: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in StockholmSpeakers:Christina Garsten, Professor of Social Anthropology, SCOREAdrienne Sörbom, Associate Professor of Sociology, SCOREAnna Tyllström, PhD in Business Studies, Institute for Futures StudiesStefan Svallfors, Professor in Sociology, Institute for Futures StudiesLiv Fries, PhD Management, Senior Advisor at Decigo The book will not be for sale at the seminar, but a flyer offering discount will be distributed.

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24 April, 2025

Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Eli Cook, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Abstract Based on my forthcoming book with Penguin-Random House,  seeks to redefine how we understand freedom and power in a choice-saturated world.

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31 October, 2017
Systemic risk models as a policy prediction tool with Anders Sandberg

Systemic risk models as a policy prediction tool with Anders Sandberg

Presentation at the workshop "AI and autonomous decision making" at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2017.

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30 January, 2020

Book release: Stefan Svallfors - The Inner World of Research

Register: The seminar is free of charge, but you need to register, REGISTER HERE The Inner World of Research - On Academic Labor is a book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher. It deals with ess

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28 March, 2024

Book launch: Taking Responsibility for Climate Change

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online on Zoom Welcome to a seminar where philosopher Säde Hormio presents her new book Taking Responsibility for Climate Change!  REG

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20 January, 2023

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

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20 December, 2022

New book to further the legacy of Derek Parfit

In the new book “Ethics and Existence - The legacy of Derek Parfit”, several of the most prominent scholars on the issues raised by Derek Parfit, contributes 20 completely original articles. "­Derek r

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30 October, 2018
Book launch with Andreas Bummel: A world parliament

Book launch with Andreas Bummel: A world parliament

"A world parliament: Governance and democracy for the 21st century" is here presented by one of the authors, Andreas Bummel at the Institute for Futures Studies in October 2018. Adrienne Sörbom and Ha

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