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Health as a Factor in Regional Economic Development
The health of the European workforce is a crucial issue as the share of old age people as well as the mean age increases, moreover the interest in the relation between health and productivity of busin
Modes of Re-Territorialisation: Spatial Implications of Regional Competition Politics in Sweden
In Sweden, efforts to develop knowledge based niches have become key elements in an increasingly growth oriented regional/industrial policy. This paper addresses the spatial implications of these chan
Jason Beckfield: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality
Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut
Epistemic Transformation and Rational Choice
Economics and Philosophy, 33(1), 2017: 125-138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267116000274 Abstract Most people at some point in their lives face transformative decisions that could result in experi
Nondeterminacy, cycles and rational choice
in: Analysis (2020) Volume 80:3. AbstractA notorious problem that has recently received increased attention in axiology, normative theory and population ethics is the apparent ubiquity of what can be g. This paper illustrates how nondeterminacy can spawn cyclical rankings. So, accepting that practical reasons can admit of nondeterminacy challenges the widely held idea that ‘better than’ is transitive. As a result, standard approaches to rational choice under nondeterminacy fail to be action-guiding, since in some situations all options are dominated, that is, impermissible according to standard rational choice criteria.
Rational choice and sociology
Pp. 872-877 in S.N. Durlauf and L.E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan.
Analytical Sociology and Rational-Choice Theory
Pp. 57-70 in: G. Manzo (Ed.) Analytical Sociology:Actions and Networks. Wiley.
Non-transitive better than relations and rational choice
in: Philosophia 48 (2020) AbstractThis paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reason

Andreas Diemer
I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also part of the Urban Lab network hosted by the Institute
Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Proximity in Sweden
Population, Space and Place, Volume 23, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1002/psp.1973. Abstract Education is one of the most important drivers of regional migration in European countries, and educational expansion