Opinions

I occasionally contribute (in Swedish) to the editorial pages of the Swedish national daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet:

• Dangerous institutional doubt (June 2024)

• Economic growth and quality (and quantity) of life (May 2024)

• Weapons can give a sense of control (April 2024)

• Save us from political propaganda for kids (March 2024)

• Men overestimate their future potential (February 2024)

• Emptied batteries after electric car rental (December 2023)

• It has never been better (December 2023)

• The importance of gratitude (November 2023)

• Hopefully he isn't right again (October 2023)

• Mom, why is he poor? (September 2023)

• Important yes, but not for politicians (August 2023)

• Polarization and Information (June 2023)

• Don't shut the door on talent (May 2023)

• Grayscale politics (April 2023)

• Challenging yourself is a good idea (March 2023)

• Lack of willingness to compete hurts women (February 2023)

• A beautiful tribute to cooperation (January 2023)

• Where the State doesn't know who you are (December 2022)

• Leaving fairy land (October 2022)

• Votes from abroad matter (September 2022)

• Life at your own risk (August 2022)

• It takes a very long time in Sweden (August 2022)

• Can cheating be a good thing? (June 2022)

• It is not mandatory to feel harassed (April 2022)

• The price of fairness can be sky high (March 2022)

• Kafka and Orwell in Swedish bureaucracy (February 2022)

• Information alone won't save us (January 2022)

• In Sweden it is "impossible" (December 2021)

• No, we are not all racists (November 2021)

• Impossible to make everyone happy (October 2021)

• Roller coaster rides in Sweden are no longer dangerous (September 2021)

• The absurdity of locking in your own citizens (August 2021)

• Academic freedom threatened by fear and dogma (June 2021)

• Waiting for Brood X  (May 2021)

• It is not necessarily true just because it feels that way (April 2021)

• How green is the grass in the drone states? (February 2021)

• We have witnessed a miracle (January 2021)

• Please don't get used to this (December 2020)

• The President continues to email me (November 2020)

• Donating instead of voting (October 2020)

• A polarizing pandemic (September 2020)

• Corona hangups across the world (August 2020)

• When social contracts are broken (June 2020)

• Corona and gender equality (May 2020)

• Take back control over the small things in life (April 2020)

• The Corona induced destruction is not creative (March 2020)

• Traveling under Corona (March 2020)

• An exaggerated parental leave (February 2020)

• The missing logical coherence of the climate alarmists (November 2019)

• It does not have to be hard (October 2019)

• Boundless gratitude (September 2019)

• Something has changed in Sweden (September 2019)

• Half the winter, twice the fun (March 2019)

• Ashamed already ahead of the elections (August 2018)

• Strategically important votes from abroad (July 2018)

• What to learn from the daylight savings debate (March 2018)

• Grateful for bananas - and for freedom (February 2018)

• Whispering of a functioning rental market bodes well (October 2017)

• The uncomfortable silence in the elevator (June 2017)

• Being present when history is made (Apr 2017)

• Different ways to cross an ocean (Dec 2016)

• Hillary Clinton's strategic choices (May 2016)

• The poor benefit from open borders (Oct 2015)

• Europe seems to be about to lose it again (Feb 2015)

• Swedes think that they are poorer than they actually are (Sep 2014)

• A little bit of Soviet in Stockholm (May 2014)

• Parents are also people (Apr 2014)

• Integration starts at the individual level (Nov 2013)

• Swedish labor market sub-optimal for pregnant women (Nov 2013)

• Political war in the US for $12.5 million an hour (Oct 2013)

• A few days in a different Boston (Apr 2013)

• Economists are also partisans (Sep 2012)

• The candidates want the same thing (May 2012)

• Deficits with Mitt and Barack (Mar 2012)

• Confusion in Occupy Harvard (Dec 2011)

• Stimulus packages are just experiments (Oct 2011)

• The financial crisis on Main Street (July 2011)

• Debts cannot be demonstrated away (June 2011)

 I also used to blog at a Swedish blog with fellow Swedish economists. You can find my texts here: Ekonomistas. 

And something in English, in the New York Times about the gender gap in competitiveness:

• Women Do Like to Compete - Against Themselves (Feb 2017)