Teemu Lari

This project will take place at Stockholm University (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) where I will work with Erik Angner (@erikangner.com) and other great philosophers and sustainability researchers. Stay tuned!

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In the project "Diagnosing scientific disagreement on sustainability and economic growth", I will do a deep dive into what makes the disagreements between green-growth and degrowth advocates so persistent, and what the most promising strategies to work towards consensus are.

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For me, the curious thing is that each view is backed up by science - or so it seems. It's just that from the vantage points of different research fields the problems and solutions look different. But not everyone can be right when views are starkly different, or can they?

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For others, the pursuit of economic growth by rich countries is part of the problem. The link between environmental harms and economic growth seems difficult to erase quickly, so some think rich countries need to give up economic growth as a goal to sufficiently reduce environmental impacts.
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For many, economic growth is an important part of the picture. Economic growth enables clean innovations facilitating the sustainability transition and is also important for many other reasons, or so the arguments go.

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The scientific consensus is clear that we need to drastically reduce the harmful impacts that the economic system has on the environment. But there is disagreement on what are the best ways to do this.

2/7

More news: the Finnish Cultural Foundation (@skr.fi) will fund my project "Diagnosing scientific disagreement on sustainability and economic growth". This means I will be occupied with two sustainability-focused philosophy-of-science projects in the coming years.
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It is essential that we can evaluate which experts are the best sources of information, judgment and advice in the sustainability transition. In the project, I will use the methods of philosophy of science to develop new perspectives to these questions.

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The sustainability transition provides a fascinating and important case study, since different experts often make differing diagnoses of sustainability-related problems and offer different solutions them.

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Experts themselves should have tools to discern where the limits of their own expertise lie, so that they can be transparent about those limits towards their non-expert audiences.

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Scientific expertise is much needed in today's world. But it's not always easy to decide who the relevant, competent and trustworthy experts are in each issue. Knowledge users such as policymakers, journalists and citizens should understand which experts they should listen to in each issue.

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Grant news! Alfred Kordelin Foundation has decided to fund my postdoc research project "Expertise and its limits in the sustainability transition". Many thanks to the foundation, the reviewers and the colleagues who supported me with the application!

Briefly on the project below ⬇️

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Mainos Poliittinen talous -lehden numeron 13:1 pääkirjoitukselle, jonka otsikko on "Poliittinen talous - mitä se on ja missä kulkevat tutkimusalan rajat?".

Poliittinen talous -lehden vuoden 2025 ensimmäinen numero on pian koottu! Pääkirjoituksessaan VTT Konsta Kotilainen @konstaamos.bsky.social ja VTT Markus Ojala @mojala.bsky.social pohtivat poliittisen talouden tutkimuksen luonnetta. 1/5

Mainos Poliittinen talous -lehdessä julkaistusta alkuperäisartikkelista, jonka otsikko on "Digijätit Euroopan unionissa: lobbaus alistakapitalismin aikakaudella.

Tuoreessa artikkelissaan dos. Matti Ylönen @mattiylonen.bsky.social ja VTT Laura Nordström @lauranordstrom.bsky.social tarkastelevat teknologiayritysten lobbausta Euroopan unionissa. 1/4

Once more with a link without typos... doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

Hm 🫤 I guess it activates with a delay... This happened once before

Finally got around to publishing a summary of my phd thesis. Stuff about pluralism, economics, philosophy of science.

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doi.org/10.23941/ejp...

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.

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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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