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Social Policy, Welfare State, and Civil Society in Sweden I-II gives a comprehensive account of the global invention of the welfare state, from the far north of the West to the global East and Southeast, and from its social policy origins to the most recent challenges from civil society. This first volume includes four essays, by now minor classics in welfare state literature. "Before Social Democracy: The Early Formation of a Social Policy Discourse in Sweden" set the stage for a research current that shifted from state welfare to welfare mix and civil society. "Working Class Power and the 1946 Pension Reform in Sweden" examined a key thesis in Peter Baldwin's seminal work The Politics of Social Solidarity, and led to a lively polemic among social historians. The third text was first published (as "Sweden") in volume 1 of Peter Flora's magnum opus Growth to Limits: The Western European Welfare States Since World War II. The final essay, "The Dialectics of Decentralization and Privatization", is a path-breaking study of the Swedish welfare state's reconstruction in the 1980s. The second volume covers the period since 1988 - "the lost world of social democracy" - and recent changes in comparative welfare state research and the Nordic Model. This work is an updated and enlarged edition in two volumes of Sven Hort's well-known and wide-ranging dissertation Social Policy and Welfare State in Sweden, published under the author's birth name Sven E. Olsson in 1990. This first volume contains the original four essays of the first edition. Sven E. O. Hort is Professor in Social Welfare at the College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea. He is an alumnus of Lund University. In Sweden he taught sociology at Linneaus and Södertörn universities. Currently he is the chief editor of the Swedish journal Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys and a deputy editor of European Societies. With Stein Kuhnle he is the author of "The Coming of East and South-East Asian Welfare States", Journal of European Social Policy (2000). In praise of the new edition: "This is an impressive, comprehensive and knowledgeable contribution to the analysis of the early history and long-term development of the Swedish welfare state. Through a prime focus on reform actors at various stages we are persuasively reminded that there was a history before the ascendance of Social Democracy from the early 1930s, that the Social Democrats played a crucial role in the expansionary phase, and that one must go beyond theories of class politics to get a proper understanding of the evolution and characteristics of the modern welfare state." - Stein Kuhnle, Professor in Comparative Politics, Hertie School of Governance and University of Bergen "The development of the Swedish welfare state is often sketched in fairly simplistic terms. Professor Horts analysis remains the most penetrating of the complex and fascinating interplay between politics, social forces, and economic development that explains much of the intricacies of the system that eventually emerged." - Gunnar Wetterberg, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Marketing goes digital är den nya bibeln för företag och företagare som anser det viktigt att hänga med i sin digitaliserade samtid. Den är skriven av Johan Eriksson och David Ståhlberg, två ledande experter inom digitalisering med bakgrund inom företaget Google. Boken reder ut begreppen kring en rad trender inom marknadsföring båda med bakgrund i digitalisering. Författarna pekar på det som verkligen ger resultat, inte på vad som är mest i ropet just nu. De vägleder läsarna genom allt från hur man bäst organiserar sig för förändring och innovation till hur man arbetar med modeller och konkreta verktyg för att effektivisera sin sälj- och marknadskommunikation. Bokens kärnbudskap är att man istället för att haka på varje dyr marknadsföringstrend inom digitalisering, ska satsa tid och pengar på sin organisation. För att överleva måste man samla medarbetare omkring sig som är nyfikna och vetgiriga och skapa en arbetskultur som premierar nya idéer, även i de fall det innebär kritik mot det egna ledarskapet, menar författarna. Till stöd för sin teori har de några av världen främsta marknadsförare inom digitalisering. Boken innehåller en rad spännande intervjuer med världsnamn som: Avinash Kaushik (Google), Martin Lindström och Yasuhari Sasaki (Dentsu. Inc). Boken är både en inspirationsbok och ett handfast verktyg att använda sig av. Varje kapitel innehåller konkreta förslag och checklistor på hur man, på ett enkelt sätt, kan omsätta Johans Erikssons och David Ståhlbergs idéer till handling. Marketing goes digital är skriven på engelska.

<i>Game Change, a Parade of Elephants, a Stubbornness of Rhinos and a Streak of Tigers</i> examines the situation of three of the planet s most enigmatic and alluring land-living animals. It is an important book that tells the alarming story of how the long-term survival of these animals is in question. They are continually threatened by poachers, international criminal networks, unscrupulous businessmen, smugglers and habitat loss.<br/><br/>Swedish conservationist, ecologist, and photographer Ola Jennersten has traced trade and smuggling routes from the savannahs and rainforests of Asia and Africa to markets in Thailand, Burma, China and Vietnam. The book not only targets poaching and illegal trade, it also introduces us to dedicated researchers, brave conservationists, diligent civil servants and the communities who share their lives with these imposing and often difficult neighbours. We are taken to meet the rangers who with very little recompense put their lives on the line to protect these awesome creatures from ruthless poachers and armed gangs.<br/><br/>240 pages generously illustrated with photos provide the reader with up-to-date information about these species, the threats they face and the organizations working to preserve them for the delight and wonder of future generations.

More world-leading research; more internationalisation; more mobility; more open access; more impact; more arts and humanities perspectives on other disciplines; more research links in teaching; we want more of most things, quite simply But how should Swedish research be organised and funded to achieve all this? The question covers numerous problems and dilemmas. What should be the distribution between major programmes and minor projects? Should research proposals be evaluated with reference to the applicants earlier achievements bibliometrically, for example or to the results expected? How much weight should be given to practical social benefits? Should assessments mainly be done by other researchers (peer review)? If so, how can they avoid spending more and more of their time evaluating other researchers? What specific role should research play in academic teaching? At universities in general? Or in politics, for that matter? Shouldnt researchers, to a higher degree, impart their results to decision-makers and the public with far greater outreach than today? Nowadays, more than half of Swedens university research is paid for by research funders outside the higher education institutions. Such funders include central government agencies, but also independent bodies. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, fosters and supports research in these disciplines. This book, published to mark RJs Golden Jubilee in 2015, is an attempt to think ahead on issues concerning the future of research.

Sverige uppfattades länge som ett samhälle präglat av jämlikhet, social sammanhållning och en ambitiös välfärdspolitik. Med sin självständiga utrikespolitik stod man utanför stormaktskonflikterna. På senare år har gängkriminalitet och skjutningar fått stor uppmärksamhet i medierna, ett högerpopulistiskt parti har blivit en del av regeringsunderlaget och vi har avslutat 200 år av alliansfrihet genom att bli medlemmar av Nato. Hur har det förändrat bilden av vårt land och oss själva?<br/><br/>I denna antologi diskuterar ett antal skribenter Sverigebilden förr och nu, både innanför och utanför landets gränser. Svante Nordin skriver om Sverige och Luther, Elisabeth Braw om utlandssvenskarnas betydelse, Mikael ­ Wiberg om teknikundret, Fraser Nelson om gängbrottsligheten och Sofia Bard om Sveriges mjuka makt. Per Enerud, Anna von Bayern och Nathan Shachar tar upp Sverigebilden i Ryssland, Tyskland och Spanien och Richard Swartz kritiserar det svenska språkets förfall.

The AI paradox is that we humans are the greatest AI threat, not AI itself. For half a century, humanity has been exhausting our planet's health in an accelerating way. Our self-destructive nature is aligned with and amplified by our technological tools. AI, as the ultimate tool, will be humanity's ultimate test. <br/><br/>The coming years will be the most dangerous in human history. Powerful enterprises are investing astronomical sums to win global dominance in artificial intelligence. Market forces unfortunately reward AI companies that prioritize speed over security. A wall of AI transformation is rushing closer. <br/><br/>In the short term, AI will help us become more productive. After that, jobs will start disappearing at an exponential rate, especially when AI takes robotic form and starts reprogramming itself recursively. We humans will eventually lose our relevance and economic value. <br/><br/>What happens when people who have lost their jobs to AI realize that their only way to make money is by tasking their AI to commit automated fraud and hacker attacks? What happens when one angry person asks their AI to design a pandemic or a self learning computer virus for banks and infrastructure? <br/><br/>There is still time to discuss a safe road forward. What should an AI-governed world look like? What should the balance between safety and freedom be? Can the collective existential AI threat be a uniting force? This book is a sobering, solution-oriented guide to understand the coming wave and to save humanity from ourselves.