Teemu Lari

A pile of printed articles

Looking forward to the Vienna summer school on the history and epistemology of econometrics. Probably never had a preparatory reading list this long for anything (not half is in the pic 😅)

How to represent and communicate uncertainty in climate science and other policy-relevant research?

Workshop Making Sense of Uncertainty in Science and Policy is starting at the SOCRATES research group at @iphilluh.bsky.social

Organized by Margherita Harris, Joe Roussos, Leonie Wiemeyer
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Tuoreessa arviossaan KTT Anna-Maria Murtola arvioi Feminismiä talouteen -teoksen (2024). Hanna Ylöstalon, Heini Kinnusen, Emma Lambergin ja Inna Perheentuvan laatima teos johdattaa lukijan kriittiseen feministiseen talouslukutaitoon sekä feministiseen taloustoimijuuteen ja sen haasteisiin. 1/3

Tutkitko työmarkkinapolitiikan muutoksia? Kirjoita Poliittinen talous -lehden teemanumeroon!

Teemanumero (1/2026) keskittyy Suomen työmarkkinapolitiikan viime vuosikymmenen muutoksiin ja niiden vaikutuksiin poliittiseen talouteen. 1/5

Kirja-arviossaan YTT Teppo Eskelinen @teppoeskelinen.bsky.social tarkastelee Joan Robinsonin ensikertaa suomennettua klassikkoa, Johdatus työllisyyden teoriaan -teosta. 1/3

Post-growth and the lack of diversity in the scenario framework Scenarios and pathways, as defined in the SSP-RCP framework, are central to recent climate research and the latest IPCC report. Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) offer a small set of alternative...

My colleague Rawad El Skaf argues that IPCC policy scenarios should include ones where Global North stops pursuing economic growth - committing to economic growth is not "policy-neutral" as IPCC mandate requires.

#econsky #philsci
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Juuri julkaistussa keskustelupuheenvuorossa VTT Olli Poropudas kommentoi Visa Heinosen ja Mika Pantzarin Poliittinen talous -lehden numerossa 12:2 julkaistua tulkintaa Suomen taloudellisesta kehityksestä. 1/4

Call for papers still open for a few days!

It was a pleasure!

Call for Papers:

Workshop "Assessing economics as a serviceable social science"

Helsinki, 22-23 Aug 2025

Possible themes range from policy-relevance, evidence & models to institutional structure of economics

Submission DL: 7 March

Details: blogs.helsinki.fi/essk-project...
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TODAY!
Does the public have poor knowledge of the economy? Should economists do more to educate them? Join us today to explore the knowledge gap in economics and examine the role of economic expertise. (Online via Zoom) #econsky #philsci 👇
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Poliittinen talous -lehden vuoden 2025 ensimmäisessä julkaisussa VTT Teemu Lari @teemulari.bsky.social käsittelee taloustieellistä pluralismia. Lari avaa lektiossaan, mistä taloustieteellisessä pluralismissa on kyse ja millaisia perusteluja pluralismin puolesta ja vastaan voidaan esittää. (1/3)

Looking forward to discussing economic expertise and the knowledge gap between economists and laypeople in the next ReSES seminar.

Online & open to all!

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University of Helsinki decided to leave Twitter (X).

Many fascinating topics in this CFP: Institutional conditions for epistemic trust, role of experts in democracy, social and cognitive diversity...

Michiru Nagatsu's (@ustagan10.bsky.social) inaugural lecture, "Practical Philosophy in Practice: Thinking, Feeling, Imagining and Acting at the End of the World" is now on the TINT Blog:
tint-helsinki.fi/2025/01/23/i...

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Some comments on my recent interview with Ha-Joon Chang in this blog post. I think the counterarguments to pluralism in economics merit more attention than Chang gives them: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/01/21/c...

The pic is from when I first learned that Hanover in January is not all dark and grey

Photograph of colorful houses and sky with pink clouds

Last week I started as a postdoc fellow at @iphilluh.bsky.social in the "SOCRATES" Centre (Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge & Science-Based Information). I will study philosophical questions related to economic expertise. How to recognize most relevant and reliable experts?

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

TINT Blogissa @teemulari.bsky.social tekee suomenkielistä yhteenvetoa Ha-Joon Changin pluralismista ja nostaa esiin haastattelussa avoimeksi jääneitä kysymyksiä.

(English version of the blog post on Ha-Joon Chang's pluralism will appear soon)
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@teemulari.bsky.social interviewed Professor Ha-Joon Chang as he visited us in Helsinki. The interview is now out in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics.

Issues covered: Pluralism in economics, role of economists in politics, advice for young scholars

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Pot with branch from dead plant in a windows sill. Next to it is another plant and a watering pot. Bellow, a sign is stuck on the wall reading - Artist: unknown. Dead plant, 2024. Glass, plastic, wood and misc. organic material. The precise placement of this piece among a collection of living plants allows the unknowns artist to remind the viewer of the inescapable cycle of life and death, as well as the capricious nature of the Ava rage house plant.

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨

Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

What a great interview with Ha-Joon Chang! @teemulari.bsky.social asks searching and informed questions covering so much ground. Even the greatest mystery of them all, namely how the two Chang brothers, Hasok and Ha-Joon, each independently arrived at pluralism in their fields. #econsky #philsci

... “(In Brazil) they have a system where you get the same credit for publishing in Cambridge Journal of Economics if you are a non-neoclassical economist, as what you get for publishing in AER or JPE if you are a neoclassical economist."

- H-J Chang doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

"The solution is that you change the method of evaluating the quality of research in a way that gives equally high rating to top scholars from each school" ...

- H-J Chang doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

“True pluralism means that we recognise that there are different kinds of respectable ways of doing research in economics”.

- H-J Chang doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

“It's not like just ‘live and let live’ or just allowing minorities to exist. Nor is this the ‘I disagree with you, but I respect your right to be different’ approach”.

- H-J Chang doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

“I want the pluralism which recognizes all the potentially useful approaches to economics as legitimate and recognizes their relative strengths and weaknesses. This kind of pluralism will also require that different schools try to learn from each other.”

- H-J Chang doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

“I think that the ultimate power is the power to make other people think what you want them to think. (…) This kind of power is not discussed at all in neoclassical economics.”

- H-J Chang doi.org/10.23941/ejp...