Tore Ellingsen
toreellingsen.bsky.social
Tore Ellingsen
@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

Tore Ellingsen is a Norwegian economist active in Sweden.

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EFN har gjort ett reportage om Tore Ellingsens (@toreellingsen.bsky.social) och min forskning om plikt och plikt-baserad motivation efn.se/play/pliktka...
Tack till de alla de inblandade duktiga journalisterna!
Pliktkänslan värd hundratals miljarder
EFN lanserar nya programmet Spets – som bygger på ekonomisk forskning
efn.se

Here’s the title of Chapter III of Adam Smith’s Moral Sentiments (1759):

”Of the corruption of our Moral Sentiments, which is occasioned by this disposition to admire the rich and the great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean condition”

Surely, Sanna Marin (former Finnish Prime Minister) must now salvage what is left of her reputation and leave the Tony Blair Institute?
Board of Peace - Season 1
Board of Peace - Season 1

No, I am not afraid of that. Big Tech owners want profit; they don’t want to make sacrifices for Trump’s imperialism. If he doesn’t contribute to their market value, they will no longer stand behind him. They will tell him to back off.

I think this is entirely realistic. We are already (credibly) threatening to cancel the trade deal. Cancelling intellectual property protections is cheaper for EU and very expensive for Big Tech. It only takes the word from von Leyen to make them think very hard about continued support for Trump.

But this isn’t the right time for that. Right now, we want Big Tech to turn against Trump, and we need to convey that they are better off if they do than if they don’t.

Yes. Ending the excessive legal protections of US Big Tech is obviously the first step in Europe’s retaliation.
So you want to hit America hard because this is the only way to stop Trump from wrecking Europe? Do read this awesome, superbly argued and illuminating piece on 'anticircumvention' by Cory Doctorow. Europe could screw the US so hard, it's encouraging: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
So you want to hit America hard because this is the only way to stop Trump from wrecking Europe? Do read this awesome, superbly argued and illuminating piece on 'anticircumvention' by Cory Doctorow. Europe could screw the US so hard, it's encouraging: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net

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Many thanks for the kind words, Scott! I’ll immediately update the book’s companion site, where I post lecture notes and more: sites.google.com/view/tore-el...

Is there already a term for overconsumption of negative news about doomscrolling?
Social media platforms that allow doomscrolling (instagram, TikTok) have the worst effects on mental health.

Apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp seem to be neutral or even positive for most users.
Does social media harm everyone?

No. But it harms *most* adolescents.

However, not all platforms are harmful.

An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Social media platforms that allow doomscrolling (instagram, TikTok) have the worst effects on mental health.

Apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp seem to be neutral or even positive for most users.
Does social media harm everyone?

No. But it harms *most* adolescents.

However, not all platforms are harmful.

An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643
Ruling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over Time
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
Bara ett år har sett färre mord sedan 60-talet.
The analysis is on point 🎯 and the framing is a chef 💋.

"Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession.
He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...
Canada Flips the Script, Hits Trump Where It Hurts the Most
The Art of the Self-Own
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

Om man vill göra kriminalpolitiken enklare att utvärdera, kanske man skulle experimentera med olika åldersgränser i olika regioner? Varför inte?
Jag ska återkommande citera hovrätten för Västra Sverige:

"Hovrätten har svårt att frigöra sig från tanken att kriminalpolitiken under senare år kan ha bidragit till en ökad rekrytering av yngre barn i allvarlig brottslighet."
Tidögängets brottsbekämpning börjar ge effekt... 👍

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Jag ska återkommande citera hovrätten för Västra Sverige:

"Hovrätten har svårt att frigöra sig från tanken att kriminalpolitiken under senare år kan ha bidragit till en ökad rekrytering av yngre barn i allvarlig brottslighet."
Tidögängets brottsbekämpning börjar ge effekt... 👍
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors-we mean we stab them in it.

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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Will see Bob Mould in Stockholm tomorrow. My son will be with me - he has just tested his home studio by recording a version of The Act We Act. (He plays all the instruments himself - and sings too.)
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

Exactly. The news media did- and is still- not doing its job. Sane-washing or whatever you want to call it.
My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain
What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
www.stopthepresses.news
What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...
A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt
kevinbryanecon.com
What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory