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Funding received for research projects about democracy and equality
Last week the institute was granted 8 million SEK by the Wallenberg Foundations for two research projects that will go on for four years. The boundary problem in democratic theory. Gustaf Arrhenius was g
Gustaf Arrhenius receives prolonged appointment as director of the institute
What sets the framework for the research at the Institute for Futures Studies is research programs, created by the director. The current one, What future? Challenges and choices in the 21st century(201
Josef Hien receives prize for his paper on culture and tax avoidance
Why are Italians so reluctant to pay taxes? This is what Josef Hien explores in his paper "Culture and tax avoidance: the Italian case" - for which he has now been awarded the2022 Herbert Gottweis Prize for Best Paper of 2021 by the Critical Policy Studies awards committee.
Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest
Symposium on the ethics of economic ordeals: Introduction
Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract Economic ordeals are allocation mechanisms that impose non-financial ‘deadweight costs to qualify for a transfer’ (Nichols and Zeckhauser 1982: 372). Examples include
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Vito Peragine: Measuring inequality and welfare when some inequalities matter more than others
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Vito Peragine, Professor of Economics at the University of Bari. His work spans the area of public
Ann-Sofie Isaksson: Internet connectivity and educational outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Ann-Sofie Isaksson, researcher in development economics, based at the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS) and
Automating authority: Accuracy, assessment, acceptance and legitimacy of AI decision-making in the public sector
The aim of this project is to build an interdisciplinary research environment that analyzes the proliferation of AI in the public sector, its impact on the decisions being made and its effects for democracy.
David Owen: Refugees, EU Citizenship and the Common European Asylum System: A normative dilemma for EU Integration.
David Owen, Professor of Social & Political Philosophy, University of Southampton. Abstract This article argues that the practical difficulties and normative dilemmas at stake in the European refuge
