Associate Professor of Economics (Stockholm School of Economics, 2005)
Vice President, Ratio

My research comprises the following themes:

• The effects of economic and political institutions (using the economic freedom index as measurement; looking at the design of constitutions).
• The effects of social institutions (social capital and trust; religion).
• Economic philosophy (Buchanan’s contractarian philosophy; Buchanan’s generality principle; ethical subjectivism, legal positivism and basic economic institutions such as property rights).
• The role of beauty in politics.

What unites virtually all of my academic work is an application of the basic hypotheses that incentives matter for human behaviour and that institutions – be they formal or informal, be they economic, political or social – shape incentives to a large degree. 

My publications are downloadable and can be found, as can my CV, to the left. My private, non-professional home page can be found here.

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