Lars P. Syll

Karl Polanyi — Wirtschaft als Teil des menschlichen Kulturschaffens  [embedded content]

What properties do societies possess that might make them possible objects of knowledge for us? My strategy in developing an answer to this question will be effectively based on a pincer movement. But in deploying the pincer I shall concentrate first on the ontological question of the properties that societies possess, before shifting to the epistemological question of how these properties make them possible objects of knowledge for us. This is not an arbitrary order of...

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Because I was there when the economics department of my university got an IBM 360, I was very much caught up in the excitement of combining powerful computers with economic research. Unfortunately, I lost interest in econometrics almost as soon as I understood how it was done. My thinking went through four stages: 1.Holy shit! Do you see what you can do with a computer’s help. 2.Learning computer modeling puts you in a small class where only other members of the caste can...

 [embedded content] Zu Hause bist immer nur du Zu Hause bist immer nur du Du hast mich abgeholt und hingebracht Bist mitten in der Nacht wegen mir aufgewacht Ich hab in letzter Zeit so oft daran gedacht Hab keine Heimat, ich hab nur dich Du bist zu Hause für immer und mich In loving memory of my mother, Lisbeth.

Observational data and causal inference Distinguished Professor of social psychology Richard E. Nisbett takes on the idea of intelligence and IQ testing in his Intelligence and How to Get It (Norton 2011). He also has some interesting thoughts on multiple-regression analysis and writes: Researchers often determine the individual’s contemporary IQ or IQ earlier in life, socioeconomic status of the family of origin, living circumstances when the individual...

Men ungefär här någon gång började jag tröttna. Åren gick, mina idéer började tryta, och framförallt var det inte så många som kom till mig och försökte dra med mig i något … Jag hade varit sakkunnig för en hel generation av professorer i socialt arbete, och mina första doktorander började bli professors-kompetenta. De behövde inte mig, men jag behövde något intressant att få arbeta med. Att bestämma i forskningsrådet och andra styrelser var intressant, men skulle ta slut....

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