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POSTPONED: Matthew Adler: Person-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant
Research seminar with Matthew Adler, Duke UniversityREGISTERAbstract The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between “person-affecting” and “impersonal” moral justifica
Completed: Implementation of self-driving cars. Overview of challenges and opportunities regarding social and ethical aspects
The project aims to provide an overall analysis of the challenges and opportunities that the implementation of self-driving cars will bring, as well as a more detailed analysis of any of these problems.
Are animals needed for food supply, efficient resource use, and sustainable cropping systems? An argumentation analysis regarding livestock farming
Food Ethics, vol. 9 Abstract It has been argued that livestock farming is necessary to feed a growing population, that it enables efficient use of land and biomass that would otherwise be lost from the
Offentliga samtal: Bilden av Sverige - en förebild eller ett land i kris?
På senare tid har fler beskrivit Sverige som ett land i kris. Inte sällan kopplas krisen till svensk integrationspolitik. Samtidigt får vi rapporter om att mycket överlag har blivit bättre i dagens Sv

Waiting for Integration Riksrevisionen
Emil Plisch från Riksrevisionen berättar om rapporten "Början på något nytt. Etableringsförberedande insatser för asylsökande" från november 2012, på Framtidsfokus Waiting for integration anordnat av
The Timing of Retirement and Social Security Reforms: Measuring Individual Welfare Changes
The paper argues that it is not sufficient to restrict calculations of effects of social reforms on individual welfare to income streams, but necessary to model individual behavior and thereafter calc
Debating demography
This week the newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning published an article by Joakim Palme, former CEO at the Institute, on how we can meet the challenge of an ageing population. Educating young people is necess
Arne Jarrick & Maria Wallenberg Bondesson: The cultural dynamics of law-making – A world history
Prof. Arne Jarrick and PhD. Maria Wallenberg Bondesson, Centre for the study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University and Institute for Futures Studies.ABSTRACTOur presentation gives significant hig

Helena Hammarskiöld
I am the initiator and project manager of the project Expanding minds - together. I run an organization for cross-sector collaboration projects as a way to foster innovation among both organizations and
The rise and fall of ordoliberalism
Socio-Economic Review Abstract Ordoliberalism has been accused of being the ideational blueprint for Germany’s fiscal stance during the Eurozone-crisis. While the literature that debates the influence o