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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?
A Future of Expulsions
Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p
Robert Goodin: Wisdom of the Multitude? Trump? Brexit?
Robert Goodin, Research Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. Robert Goodin's research focuses on political theory and public policy. Read more about Robert Goodin ABSTRACT According
Theron Pummer: Future Suffering and the Non-Identity Problem
Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Theron Pummer, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Register hereAbstr
The long shadow of lobbying: ideational power of lobbying as illustrated by welfare profits in Sweden
Interest Groups & Advocacy volume 10, pp.47–67 AbstractThe weak correlation between lobbying and policy outcomes is puzzling. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle is partly caused by
Completed: The consequences of poverty
How does poverty affect children and adults? We study social relations, social participation, physical and mental health, but also the effect on children's education and income.
Anna Stilz: Climate displacement and territorial justice
Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online OBS! This seminar is part of a workshop and therefor takes place on a different weekday and time than usual. Research semi
Myths and truths about "the experiment"
The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.