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Book Launch & Book Signing: Professor Tore Ellingsen Changing the world by changing the game

The Department of Economics (SAM) and FAIR - Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality, invite you to a book launch with Tore Ellingsen. Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive and others end in divorce? These questions seem unrelated, but societies, companies, and marriages have one important thing in common: they involve more than one individual.

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Tore Ellingsen holds the Ragnar Söderberg Professorship of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics. He's also an adjunct professor at NHH. 

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In his book, Institutional and Organizational Economics: A Behavioral Game Theory Introduction, Tore equips readers to answer essential questions around the success and failure of humans in groups, drawing on behavioral game theory, psychology, and sociology. He emphasizes how other-regarding preferences such as altruism and dutifulness matter for societies’ prosperity, and analyzes the role of culture in the form of shared values and understandings. One lesson is that cooperation is facilitated when people anticipate that they will hold common memories of past behavior, especially if agreements take precedence over leaders’ authority.

A groundbreaking text, Institutional and Organizational Economics is essential reading for students and scholars of economics, political science, sociology, and public administration.

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13:00 - 14:30 Tore will present his new book Institutional and Organizational Economics: A Behavioral Game Theory Introduction.

14:30 - 15:00 Book Signing.