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17 September, 2013

Life-style and self-rated global health in Sweden: A prospective analysis spanning three decades

Preventive Medicine ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743513003472 Abstract The article studies the relation between lifestyle and  global self-rated health in the adult

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina
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21 June, 2009

The Emergence of Foresight Activities in Swedish Government Authorities

This paper discusses and aims to explain the emergence of foresight activities in Swedish government authorities, including environmental scanning and analysis, futures studies and other activities tr

Type of publication: Working papers | Torbjörn Lundqvist
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20 March, 2003

Cohort Effects on Earning Profiles: Evidence from Sweden

This paper estimates cohort size effects on earning profiles and whether these are affected by an individual’s position in the Swedish Baby Boom and Baby Busts. Amongst other, it is found that higher

Type of publication: Working papers | Susanne Dahlberg and Ruth-Aïda Nahum
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03 September, 2020

Does education indoctrinate?

International Journal of Educational Development Abstract Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using

Type of publication: Journal articles | Vartanova, Irina , & Ishac Diwan
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31 May, 2018

Rethinking intimacy: Semi-anonymous spaces and transitory attachments in Argentine tango dancing

Current Sociology, 66(3), pp. 356-372. doi.org/10.1177/0011392116681385  Abstract Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have tra

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07 March, 2016

Poverty trends during two recessions and two recoveries: Lessons from Sweden 1991—2013

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5:3. DOI 10.1186/s40174-016-0051-8. Abstract We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina , , Erik Bihagen Jonsson, Jan O. , , Erik Bihagen
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26 January, 2023

Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

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14 January, 2025

Generationally Parochial Geoengineering: Early Warning-Signs of a Basic Threat

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generationsvol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract ‘Geoengineering' has come to refer to massive technological inter

Type of publication: Working papers | Stephen M. Gardiner & Catriona McKinnon
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17 June, 2015

The not-very-rich and the very poor. Poverty persistence and poverty concentration in Sweden

Journal of European Social Policy, Published online before print June 17, 2015, doi: 10.1177/0958928715588707 We question the common description of poverty in Western countries as largely brief and tra

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina
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17 May, 2023

William MacAskill: What we owe the future - planning for a million years

Location: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg in Stockholm Buy your ticket at Billetto > The philosopher William MacAskill is known to many as one of the founders of Effective Altruism, the movement that has rec

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