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Morten N. Støstad

@mortenstostad.bsky.social
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Post-doc at the FAIR Institute at NHH. Previously a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley. Studying inequality's consequences. Once upon a time I was an astrophysicist.

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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
NEW paper w. Max Lobeck & Chloé de Meulenaer: How do people in the United States and Norway argue for redistribution? In the U.S., pro-redistributive arguments mainly appeal to fairness. In Norway, arguments about the societal consequences of inequality are central. Thread ↓
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Steve Roth @steveroth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"Our main suggestion is to treat economic inequality itself as an externality, which has wide-ranging implications for classical economic theory." @mortenstostad.bsky.social #EconSky pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271705/1-s2....
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Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 22/07/2025
Research by @mortenstostad.bsky.social & Lobeck finds most say rising inequality fuels many social ills — while narrowing it boosts trust, well‑being, democracy, public services, growth & innovation. #EconSky
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Could giving $1,000 to the poor and $2,000 to the rich be a progressive policy? Yes. (For legal purposes I do not endorse this policy)
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Wouter Leenders @leenders.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
According to the latest BEA data for Q4 2024, profits booked in Ireland by US multinationals have bounced back and reached a new high. The UK and Singapore are now nearly as important for US multinationals' profits as the Netherlands. Profits booked in Mexico and Canada remain relatively small.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
In a world where it is increasingly clear that economic inequality is an externality -- as it weakens political systems, increases crime and unrest, and decreases trust -- it is malpractice not to teach students this in ECON101.
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Wouter Leenders @leenders.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Just finished teaching a class on taxation in the Economics and Public Policy master's at @sciencespo.bsky.social. My slides, heavily inspired by courses by Charles Brendon, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and Emmanuel Saez, are here: 👉 wouterleenders.eu/KAFP3355/06_... Feedback very welcome!
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
There is an over-supply of PhDs that want to do research-adjacent activities. There is an under-supply of replication. Solution: Large government-funded replication institutes. These institutes would be strong deterrents for bad research, improving overall research quality.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
NEW: A groundbreaking survey on fairness across the world with 65,000 individuals across 60 countries -- from colleagues at @nhhecon.bsky.social. Key findings: * The West is especially meritocratic. * What drives inequality? Globally, people believe luck matters more than merit. bit.ly/41V6zJe
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I wish BlueSky added a good algorithm. This is the huge, huge problem with this website. I come on here to see the biggest, most interesting things that are happening online -- but "Discover" is just very bad, approaching current Twitter levels. Not sure if this is everyone's experience?
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Twitter's "For you" page has become complete slop. I don't see big posts from accounts I follow, just terrible content and right-wing propaganda. "Following", meanwhile, is like the Facebook feed of whoever posted in the last hour. It's really taken a complete nosedive.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I'm not sure if it's changes in the algorithm or everyone leaving, but Twitter is becoming more unbearable every day. How's everyone doing on BSky?
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A point about top taxation I think is overlooked is that both the mechanical effect and behavioral responses reduce inequality. The mechanical effect also collects revenue, which is great. But both reduce inequality.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Come join us at the Berkeley Stone Center Summer School on Inequality! Great opportunity for early-stage PhDs to get a crash course on modern inequality research.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I've been posting both here and on Twitter lately. The engagement on both: (Likes on BSky / Likes on Twitter) 0 - 16 4 - 589 0 - 5 2 - 190 ...where is everyone? Any hints welcome!
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
A new paper argues that rising inequality contributed to the pre-2007 crisis debt boom. The idea is that people increased their housing expenditure to keep up with their neighbors' increased spending, fueling unsustainable demand.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Both Republicans and Democrats are likely to think inequality worsens democratic institutions. An AI summary of their explanations when asked why: "Economic inequality enables the wealthy to exert disproportionate influence on political processes, [...] undermining democracy."
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The feeling that economic inequality leads to social unrest is mounting. Here is a brief overview of the current academic evidence.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Striking example of a point I often make academically -- people may think inequality is a negative externality without thinking that inequality is unfair.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
One thing I won't miss from Twitter is my threads in progress being irreparably deleted out of nowhere
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"This is a historic decision. Now is the time to turn words into action and launch an inclusive international negotiation, extending beyond G20 countries, on the reform of the taxation of the super-rich." 💬 @gabrielzucman.bsky.social www.g20.org/en/documents...
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
About half of the people I follow on Twitter are already here. Had no idea the migration was at this stage already.
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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Network effects are crazy, huh? Hello everyone!
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