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Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance

Erik Bähre has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for research on the morality of life insurance. What issues are raised when insurance companies define responsibility and solidarity? Has insurance changed since the crisis of 2007?

Erik Bähre • 05-01-2016

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Airbnb: the neighbours decide

According to Airbnb, Amsterdam is the first city to have passed an Airbnb-friendly law. Yet, fed up by room letting websites, the neighbours are less friendly.

Nikkie Buskermolen • 30-11-2015

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Whose land is it anyway?

Property is not just a legal term that states who owns what. Discussions on property reveal a bigger picture, in which not only the law but history and oral tradition take part as well.

• 30-10-2014

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The peculiar case of (non) creativity

Creativity is one of the buzzwords everyone seems to be after - individuals, businesses, education institutions and even states. Some seem to succeed better than others. But is that really the case? What are our views on what is creative and what is not?

Zane Kripe • 10-09-2013

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The problem of ‘culture’ in the New Economy

Governments around the world postulate digital entrepreneurship as the key to their nations’ economic future. Yet it seems that this call for more entrepreneurial citizens also goes hand in hand with a request to change culture.

Zane Kripe • 27-05-2013

Diversity · Digitalisation

Locating Futures: what do we do when the grass is greener on the other side?

What is actually going on when we say that the future is happening here or there or somewhere else? Zane Kripe describes ethnographic encounters in Southeast Asia where people discuss where the future of technology and business is unfolding.

Zane Kripe • 14-04-2013

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Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance

Airbnb: the neighbours decide

Whose land is it anyway?

The peculiar case of (non) creativity

The problem of ‘culture’ in the New Economy

Locating Futures: what do we do when the grass is greener on the other side?