The Intelligence of Persuasion

Crime novels are often seen as low-brow fiction. The author can entertain with murders and murderers as a puzzle which is eventually sol...

It's been over a month since all of Norway went into lockdown, meaning that I teach my classes and do my research from home (and defend...

Hi everyone! This blog has become quite vast after a while, and I thought it might be useful to gather some of the more pedagogical posts o...

A lot of these thoughts are inspired by or based on a lecture given by Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, Senior Economist at Menon Economics. He compl...

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." In his book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness , presi...

As I was pulling into the university parking lot today, I realized that my mind was instinctively looking not just for free parking spaces,...