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Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption
Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010). This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,
Göran Duus-Otterström: Historical Emissions and Climate Justice
Senior lecturer Göran Duus-Otterström at the University of Gothenburg. ABSTRACT A common view in the discussion of climate change is that the polluter should pay. The costs associated with combatting cl
Governing for Future Generations: How Political Trust Shapes Attitudes Towards Climate and Debt Policies
in: Frontiers in political science AbstractPolicy decisions, and public preferences about them, often entail judgements about costs people should be willing to pay for the benefit of future generations
New initiative: Anxieties of Democracy
New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and
Completed: Anxieties of democracy
Is representative democracy in crisis? If so, in what ways and how is it possible to strengthen it?
Malcolm Fairbrother (presenter): How Much Do People Value Future Generations? (paper together with Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, webinar)
Malcolm Fairbrother is professor of sociology at Umeå University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. In this seminar he presents the paper How Much Do People Value Future Generations? C
Articles, videos and interviews on the corona pandemic
Our researchers comments the corona pandemic from their field of expertise. All the articles, videos and interviews are collected here. Is Sweden's soft lockdown working?Despite relatively high number
Studies on climate ethics and future generations vol. 2
Working paper series 2020:1–11. Paul Bowman & Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (eds) This volume comprises the second round of preprint papers written as part of the Climate ethics and future generations
Potential Institutions for Future Generations: What Do Current Generations Think?
Results from a Six-Country Public Opinion Survey 32 s. Summary Policymakers, civil society organizations, and academics are proposing the establishment of new institutions for better representing the rig
The climate ethics program: "Interdisciplinary at its best"
"Innovative, ambitious, and extremely well managed." A mid-term evaluation of the research program Climate Ethics and future generations praises it for being interdisciplinary at its best. Riksbankens
