Lars P. Syll

This is the way I want to live .[embedded content] To my children — David, Amanda, Tora, Sebastian, and Linnea So if you’re feeling sort of down and outDon’t loose your faith, wipe away the doubtYou must take a stand that’s what it is about

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We’ve lots of evidence from different times and places that the elasticity of output with respect to capital is indeed small. In his famous paper which kickstarted this approach to thinking about economic growth, Robert Solow estimated (pdf) that only one-eighth of the increase in US GDP per worker between 1900 and 1949 was due to increases in the capital stock. The rest, he said, was due to technical progress. In Fully Grown, Dietrich Vollrath estimated that from 1950 to 2000...

What’s confusing about the woke movement is that it expresses traditional left-wing emotions: empathy for the marginalized, indignation at the plight of the oppressed, determination that historical wrongs should be righted. Those emotions, however, are derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions that ultimately undermine them. Theory is such a nebulous and trendy concept that it’s even been used to launch a fashion line, but if the word today has no clear content, it does...

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Palestinademonstrationer med dubbla budskap Under året som gått har pro-palestinska demonstrationer hållits varje vecka i Malmö. För några dagar sedan publicerade Sydsvenskan en granskning av dessa demonstrationer och kunde avslöja att demonstranter — på arabiska — uppmanar till terrorstöd och fortsatt krig. Detta har tydligen inte fallit en del av demonstranterna på läppen. I torsdags sökte man därför upp reportern Inas Hamdan utanför hennes bostad och...

Även vår politiska miljö har börjat degenerera till ett ovärdigt spektakel. Från falukorvsviftande till helikopterpresskonferenser och trollarméer är vi på väg mot ett scenario där jippo och gyckel alltmer ersätter substans och innehåll, där viljan att regera trumfar samhällsbygget. Anti-intellektualismen är utbredd i vårt land. Skepsis mot experter och forskare blir allt vanligare … Vi har avverkat mycket av utrymmet för idédebatt medialt. Istället...

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As social scientists — and economists — we have to confront the all-important question of how to handle uncertainty and randomness. Should we define randomness with probability? If we do, we have to accept that to speak of randomness we also have to presuppose the existence of nomological probability machines, since probabilities cannot be spoken of — and actually, to be strict, do not at all exist — without specifying such system-contexts. Accepting Haavelmo’s domain of...