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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13h

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21h

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.

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‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Conrad Kottak: "from 1968 until my retirement, I taught undergraduates that race is culturally constructed... For three decades, students found it fascinating... Sometime around 2000, the reception of that same, unchanged lecture began to shift." www.anthropology-news.org/articles/how...

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How Anthropological Knowledge Gets Made - Anthropology News

The Boghossian Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, which singles out anthropology as overly

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Vanderbilt sub-report on Music Studies is out. TLDR: it is utter garbage. The long-awaited evidence of our “deterioration in scholarly standards” is...: "the shift from...central areas of music scholarship [Western art music] to the more peripheral areas". www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

Counted as canonical only if the list is exactly: western_art_music none Counted as non-canonical if the list contains any of these: popular_music jazz_and_blues traditional_and_non_western screen_media

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Noam might be joking but since 80% of just about everything is crap, the most plausible way of completing sentences in philosophy, given what’s been published, is not likely to hit the nail on the head.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If they wanted to promote the dead white men, they’re not doing it very effectively, because it looks like you could very easily follow this requirement to the letter without assigning anything written by a dead white man.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking at a large collection of Renoirs and Cezannes (among others, at the Barnes Foundation), I kept thinking that one of them regularly anticipates great art of the decades to come and the other anticipates dentists' waiting rooms.

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jackson Chourio is now the Brewers all-time postseason home run leader. He is 22 years old.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Adam @verydarkgreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my dissertation chair told us first-years "philosophers are toddlers and you can't make them give up a toy without giving them a different one to hold"

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This isn’t as embarrassing as Schmitt’s self-destruction, but Sen. Kennedy has used his question period to say, “You make me want to throw up in my mouth.”

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stoics think that a lot more is required of a person to change their emotional response than anything a Humean would recognize as “just changing a belief.” Stoicism requires a different way of thinking about belief attribution.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's kinda fun.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The junior senator from the Show Me state just got shown. What an embarrassment, and it probably does not make the list of the top twenty most embarrassing things he's done in public life.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever I see Trump addressing the camera, I think that it’s really incredible how the USA used to be admired.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

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Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thucydides warned us about this, observing that it happened during the Athenian plague at the start of the Peloponnesian wars and shortly after, on Corcyra (Korfu) during its civil war. He suggested that when people feel stressed, they’ll make a virtue of vice.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How to engineer is for engineers to learn. Whether, when, and to what extent to engineer is for human beings to learn.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve read enough of recent articles that I don’t doubt that this is true. But it is true only of philosophy in some traditions, at some phases of those traditions’ development.

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Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[RT - Rob Friedman] Justin Verlander's 1st MLB Strikeout vs. Final MLB Strikeout.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why do all the tech bros sound like an edgy 12-year-old’s version of a genius? Why didn’t these people actually grow up?

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a message worth spreading, and it’s the culmination of an interesting and thoughtful thread. Recommended reading!

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was going to avoid posting or reposting on Yom Kippur, but surely this is an acceptable exception.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

UPDATE: CNN now says it has ALSO been denied White House access.

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint.

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Helpful thread of what seems to me good advice, after having read more than a few job applications in philosophy.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Neither Florida GOP/national GOP responded to my requests for comment. If the party can't denounce Rawson, who -condoned slavery -called for gay people to be executed -appeared to advocate lynching -marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -was part of League of the South not sure there's a red line

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

According to a meeting I was in, UMass estimates that if the capacity of these tools were maxed out by student, faculty, staff users, the total cost to the university would be $130,000/day, or about $47 million / year.

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