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toreellingsen.bsky.social
Economist at Stockholm School of Economics My book, Institutional and Organizational Economics is available at this link: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509558995
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I long believed that the presence of liberal voices on X did more good than harm. No more. And I now find it outright distasteful to see the Swedish PM making his official statements there.

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Over 900 (and counting) Political Scientists have signed on to express their alarm at Trump’s blatant disregard for existing laws, regulations, and democratic norms. Please share widely. Statement and full list of signers (so far) can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

When the bully pulls the gloves off, it’s time to use your head.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 407 comments

pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/b... Interesting idea. Hitting the oligarchs without raising prices or harming workers. Would it be possible to retaliate by (selectively?) rolling back IP protection?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I had to go back and read this blog post from 2016 by @jvoth.bsky.social vothspeak.blogspot.com/2016/11/trum...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Californian secession seems less ludicrous today than a week ago. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

There are natural experiments and then there are experiments in nature. Fantastic. This will be an IgNobel for sure!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a piece I wrote with @rfisman.bsky.social in the NYT, collecting some of our thoughts about what the oligarchic embrace of Trump can do to our economy and our politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/o...

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

A beautiful thread - worth reading even if you initially find it difficult and counterintuitive. It’s like a drama that is first painful to watch but then ends well.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post…I will not stop holding truth to power…because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

👇🎯💯 Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament Some of us have been saying this for years now. It also applies to things like the pardon power, stealing SCOTUS seats, etc. All this stuff is bad. But until the GOP <mutually> agrees to stop doing it, good behavior from only Dems is the worst outcome.

submitted 85 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

What can one do? I find it hard to sit still, so I wrote an Op-Ed to FoxNews with counterarguments to the tariffs they have been praising. But of course they won't publish it. So, I just post it here.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

We (= Department of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics) are hiring two assistant professors (open field and health). Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

IMO this critique is misinformed. Obviously, Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson are not dependency theorists, but they have more elements of DT than these authors allow for or perhaps know aobut. A mini-thread of things the authors of this critique missed about A, J, & R, jointly or individually.

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

Money in politics and morons in politics are not independent events.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Mmm this is a bit different from the usual anodyne speech of a Commission president as regards a Council presidency... ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

submitted 141 days ago • 3 comments

Intrigued by the Physics Nobel, I browsed Hopfield's publications. Here is one that caught my interest: www.its.caltech.edu/~jkenny/nb250c/papers/Hopfield-1983b.pdf

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to figure out how to make sense of the modern GOP? Let's consider Ziblatt's "Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy," specifically Chapter 2 on the origins and choices of Europe's conservative parties in the 19th century 1/n

submitted 144 days ago • 9 comments

Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal “Expression of Concern” for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study 🧵

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,185,463. This is a prime number!

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment