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Daniel J. Benjamin & Ori Heffetz: What Do Happiness Data Mean? Evidence from a Survey of Happiness Respondents
Daniel J. Benjamin, Professor (Research) of Economics, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern CaliforniaOri Heffetz, Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Samu
Climate Obstruction - How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet
Routledge, 156 p. InClimate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhä bring together crucial insights fr
The Long-Term Cognitive and Socioeconomic Consequences of Birth Intervals: A Within-Family Sibling Comparison Using Swedish Register Data
Demography, 54(2): 459-484, doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0550-x Abstract We examine the relationship between birth-to-birth intervals and a variety of mid- and long-term cognitive and socioeconomic outcom
How economics can save the world
Book launch for How Economics Can Save the World (Penguin, 2023) by Erik Angner, professor of practical philosophy and PhD in economics. Economics has always been shadowed by a movement that has been c
A Game of Stars: Active SETI, radical translation and the Hobbesian trap
Futures Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007 Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac
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
“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism” The turn to civility in the cultural expressions of neo-Nazism in Sweden
in: Nordicom Review, Volume 42: Issue S1This article is based on a case study of the media narratives of the neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) and situates this particular actor w
Implementing the Water Framework Directive and Tackling Diffuse Pollution from Agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland
in: Water 12: 244 AbstractTackling diffuse pollution from agriculture is a key challenge for governments seeking to implement the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD). In the research liter
Completed: Waiting for Life
A minitour with screening of the film "Waiting for Life" and a panel discussion including three former life-sentenced men, two criminologists and a documentary filmmaker will be made in San Fransisco, Washington DC and Stockholm. How can culture and meaningful content change life in prison?
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy
Regulation & Governance Abstract As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generisand have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make indu
