Alexander Cappelen wins the Fulbright Article Prize 2021
An academic committee appointed by the Norwegian Fulbright Alumni Association has decided to award Professor Cappelen the Fulbright Article Prize 2021.
The article «Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians?” was published in Journal of Political Economy in 2020.
In the article, the authors shed new light on the major differences in attitudes to inequality and redistribution in the United States and Scandinavia. The article is based on a unique experiment where participants from the general population in the USA and Scandinavia makes real choices in identical situations. The main results of the study show that there are systematic differences in the willingness to accept inequality, especially when the inequalities are due to luck. The study has received much attention and has already inspired several new studies.
Alexander W. Cappelen is a professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), where his academic positions include Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality), co-director of the research group The Choice Lab, and Chairman of Centre for Ethics and Economics.
Bertil Tungodden is a professor at the Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Scientific Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality) and co-director of the research group The Choice Lab. Bertil is Einstein Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin and Associated Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, and serve as an associate editor in Journal of Political Economy and Social Choice and Welfare.
Ingvild Almås is a professor at IIES, Stockholm University. She is also a professor II at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and Principal Investigator at the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality).