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

European Political Science Review, Vol 5 (2013), pp 363-80. First published online July 16, 2012, doi:10.1017/S175577391200015X. The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of i

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Improved planning in the healthcare system by mining hospital data with Marie Persson

Presentation at the workshop "AI and autonomous decision making" at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2017.

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

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

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

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.

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

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Anna Tyllström, Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University and IFFS affiliated