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10 March, 2016

Of Malthus and Methuselah: does longevity treatment aggravate global catastrophic risks?

Physica Scripta 89 128005 (7pp) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abstract  Global catastrophic risk is a term that refers to the risk of the occurrence of an event that kills at least millions of people

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim
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05 March, 2024
Completed: Cultural Evolution in Digital Societies

Completed: Cultural Evolution in Digital Societies

This project will build on evolutionary models and insights to study how conditions change with new information pathways, and technologies capable of acting with increasing authonomy from human control.

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10 January, 2025

Changes in Immigrant Population Prevalence and High Violent Crime Rates in Swedish Municipalities

Journal of International Migration and Integration Abstract Global evidence indicates minimal connection between immigration and crime. Nordic research, however, has  been generally carried out on indiv

Type of publication: Journal articles | Sarnecki, Jerzy , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin Beckley, Amber , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin Mondani, Hernan , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin Rostami, Amir , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin
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17 April, 2023

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Are stereotypers wronged when stereotyped? On personal, doxastic wrongs and structural, doxastic injustice

Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm Join us on site or online, REGISTER HERE > Research seminar with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Professor at the Department of

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25 January, 2022

No declines in mental health among young adults at the beginning of the pandemic

When restrictions were introduced at the beginning of the pandemic, many assumed that young adults' mental health would deteriorate rapidly due to factors such as social isolation, unemployment and ec

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24 January, 2017

Francesca Minerva: We are all lookist, but no one is blameworthy

Dr Francesca Minerva, FWO research fellow at the University of Ghent, department of philosophy and moral sciences. ABSTRACT Lookism is discrimination against the unattractive, and it is a widespread but

Dr Francesca Minerva, FWO research fellow at the University of Ghent, department of philosophy and moral sciences.
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26 August, 2014

Swedish Public Housing Companies In Transition

Tapio Salonen, Professor in Social Work, Malmö University A dramatic shift has characterized the Swedish housing policy in later years; from strictly state regulated to one of the most market driven in

Tapio Salonen, Professor in Social Work, Malmö University
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19 March, 2021

Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries

Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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28 February, 2014

The Future of Inequality

The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The dramatic increase in inequality in advanced capitalist countries is closely related to decl

The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
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06 September, 2019

Per Krusell: The Role of Economic Analysis in Combatting Climate Change

Per Krusell, Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. Abstract The science is clear: Present global warming is caused by CO2 emissions from human activities. In order to avoid the big problems th

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