In 2013 the Institute for Futures Studies arranged the 6th annual INAS-Conference in Stockholm. The conference was opened by Thomas Schelling, being interviewed by Richard Swedberg.

On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies. Thomas

World Bank Economic Review 33, 21-40 Abstract How much should the present generations sacrifice to reduce emissions today, in order to reduce the future harms of climate change? Within climate economics,

Nature Communications  Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s

Interview with Thomas Schelling

On the 7th of June, 2013 professor and Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Schelling came to visit Stockholm, Sweden and the Institute for Futures Studies in order inaugurate an international research conferenc

Here you will find documentation from some of our previous research seminars. November 29th 2013: Contexts and conditions of ethnic discrimination. Evidence from field-experiments in German housing mark by Katrin AusprungRead the blog post

Theoria Abstract Definitions of disabilityare useful for different purposes and carry normative significance. However, defining disability has proven a difficult task. Communities with different theoreti

Biology Letters 17: 20210158 Abstract A widespread and popular belief posits that humans possess a cognitive capacity that is limited to keeping track of and maintaining stable relationships with approxi

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

Gianluca Manzo, Sociology Sorbonne Status hierarchies have the characteristic of being increasingly asymmetric distributions that, however, never turn into winner-take-all structures. In this paper we