Is the world only becoming better and better? How are increases in wealth and life expectancy affected by social inequalities? Why do we hear so little about the global increase in mental illness and its development over time? These are some of the questions that Roland Paulsen, associate professor of sociology, discusses in this video, which is also a comment on some of the claims of Hans Rosling and other New Optimists.
Climate Crisis
Ha Vinh Tho – From inner transformation to social innovation: Gross National Happiness
Many of the systems that were put in place in the last century: economic, political, social, educational… do not seem able to meet the challenges that we are facing as a humankind anymore, and there […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast: November 2017
In the November 2017 Taxcast: we discuss the latest offshore scandal, the Paradise Papers with one of the journalists who got the scoop, Pulitzer prize winning Frederik Obermaier of Suddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium […]
EU politics
Michael von der Schulenburg, Glenn Diesen: EU Has Become Lawless – Crushing All Dissent
8 January 2026
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