Pp. 315-336 in The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Klein. Leiden: Brill.

Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Working paper 2011:13.

Why are Italians so reluctant to pay taxes? This is what Josef Hien explores in his paper "Culture and tax avoidance: the Italian case" - for which he has now been awarded the2022 Herbert Gottweis Prize for Best Paper of 2021 by the Critical Policy Studies awards committee. 

Critical Policy Studies, volume 15 Abstract Culture is increasingly used as an explanatory variable for tax evasion. So far, we know, however, little about the mechanisms that link culture and tax behav

In Western Europe, Italy is at the top when it comes to tax evasion. In 2013, an estimated 27 percent of the entire tax revenue in Italy was evaded. What are the reasons for this? Political scientist ".

Venue: Campus Albano, Lärosal 11 (before lunch) and Lärosal 10 (after lunch) Anyone who is interested in the intersection between social and political philosophy and philosophy of language is welcome to (You are welcome to attend even if you do not indicate it on the doodle beforehand, but doing so is appreciated for planning purposes).

Mind 130(520), 2021 Abstract The Bayesian maxim for rational learning could be described asconservative changefrom one probabilistic belief orcredencefunction to another in response to new information. ). But can this conservative-change maxim be extended to revising one’s credences in response to entertaining propositions or concepts of which one was previously unaware? The economists,) make a proposal in this spirit. Philosophers have adopted effectively the same rule: revision in response to growing awareness should not affect the relative probabilities of propositions in one’s ‘old’ epistemic state. The rule is compelling, but only under the assumptions that its advocates introduce. It is not a general requirement of rationality, or so we argue. We provide informal counterexamples. And we show that, when awareness grows, the boundary between one’s ‘old’ and ‘new’ epistemic commitments is blurred. Accordingly, there is no general notion of conservative change in this setting.

Modern Vikings in the East. Sweden’s Role in 1990’s Russian Economic Reforms: Institutions, Elite Networks, and Informal Practices

What role did Swedish institutions, experts, and elites play in the economic and political development in post-Soviet Russia, with corruption, tax evasion and the emergence of the oligarchy as a result?

in Synthese (2020) AbstractWhen an agent learns of an expert’s credence in a proposition about which they are an expert, the agent should defer to the expert and adopt that credence as their own. This

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC ABSTRACTThe advent of the euro crisis brought back a gap between North and South in Europe not just i