Updated as of January 2019
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The Irish Economy in a Comparative Institutional Perspective, Dublin; NESC 1992.
Kontroverser i norsk sosiologi, [Controversies in Norwegian Sociology], Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1991.
Norden dagen derpå. De nordiske økonomisk-politiske modellene og deres problemer på 1970- og 1980-tallet, [Norden the day after. The Nordic economic-political models and their problems in the 1970s and 1980s]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget/Norwegian University Press 1986.
[editor] The Nordic Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Social Research, Vol. 28, Bingley: Emerald 2011. 420 pp.
[edited with Tommy H. Clausen], Capitalisms Compared, Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20, Amsterdam: JAI/Elsevier 2007. 410 ss.
[edited with Stephen Van Holde], The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces, Comparative Social Research, Vol. 24, Amsterdam: JAI/Elsevier 2002. 424 pp.
[edited with Fredrik Engelstad], Methodological Issues in Comparative Social Science, Comparative Social Research, Vol. 16, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press 1997. 268 pp.
[editor] Contributions to the Comparative Study of Development, [Proceedings from Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Symposium 1990, Vol. 2.], Oslo: Institute for Social Research, Report 92: 2, 1992.
”A Hayekian Public Intellectual in Iceland” forthcoming in Dieter Plehwe & Quinn Slobodian, ed. Market Prophets from the Margins, New York: Zone Books, 2021.
“Social science, humanities and the ‘Nordic model’”, forthcoming as Ch, 3 in H. Byrkjeflot, K. Petersen, L. Mjøset and M. Mordhorst (editors), The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, London: Routledge 2021.
“Old and New Social Movements in the Nordic Countries – History and Future in an International Perspective”, Ch 6 in Fredrik Engelstad, Cathrine Holst & Gunnar C. Aakvaag (editors), Democratic State and Democratic Society. Institutional Change in the Nordic Model, Berlin: De Gruyter Open 2018, 118-150. [978-3-11-063408-2]
”The Nordic Route to Development”, Ch. 29 in Erik S. Reinert, Jayati Ghosh & Rainer Kattel (red.), Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2016, 533-569.
”A varieties approach to the varieties of capitalism”. In Sean O’Riain, Felix Behling, Rossella Ciccia, Eoin Flaherty (editors), The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2015, 15-37.
”Stein Rokkan’s methodology of macro-historical comparison”. Comparative Sociology (14) 2015, 508-547.
Patrik Aspers, Jukka Gronow, Lars Bo Kaspersen, Lars Mjøset, Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir and Aino Sinnemäki, “Nordic Sociology”. Pp. 303-317 in Sokratis Koniordos & Alexander Kyrtsis, editors, The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology, London: Routledge 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-58880-5.
Ådne Cappelen and Lars Mjøset, “Can Norway Be a Role Model for Natural Resource Abundant Countries?” in Augustin Fosu (Ed.), Development Success, Oxford University Press 2013, 44-72.
“The Fate of The Sociological Imagination”. In: John Scott & Ann Nilsen, editors, C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2013, 57-87.
“Many notions of theory – too few methodologies to deal with them”, 17-25 in Norwegian Research Council, The Role of Theory in Educational Research. Report from the March Seminar 2011, Oslo: NFR 2012. (ISBN 9978-82-12-03050-3)
“Review Essay” [on Peter Hedström & Peter Bearman (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, Oxford 2009], Acta Sociologica, 54 (3), 2011, 301-305.
[with Ådne Cappelen] ”The integration of the Norwegian oil economy into the world economy”, Comparative Social Research, 28, 2011, 167-264.
”Nordic political economy after financial deregulation: Banking crises, economic experts, and the role of neoliberalism”, Comparative Social Research, 28, 2011, 365-420.
“The contextualist approach to social science methodology”, pp. 39-68 in D. Byrne & C. C. Ragin, editors, Handbook of Case-based Methods, London: Sage 2009, 39-68.
Ådne Cappelen and Lars Mjøset, “Can Norway Be a Role Model for Natural Resource Abundant Countries?” WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/23, 24 pp. ISSN 1810-2611, ISBN 978-92-9230-192-7. http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2009/en_GB/rp2009-23/ (see 2013).
”The art of macro-qualitative modelling” in Wolfgang Drechsler, Rainer Kattel & Erik S. Reinert, editors. Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts: Essays in Honor of Carlota Perez. London – New York – Delhi: Anthem Press 2009, 239-269.
[with Tommy H. Clausen], ”An introduction to the comparison of capitalisms”, Comparative Social Research, 24, 2007, 1-17.
”An early approach to the varieties of world capitalism: methodological and substantive lessons from the Senghaas/Menzel-project”, Comparative Social Research, 24, 2007, 123-176.
“A case-study of a case-study. Strategies of generalization and specification in the study of Israel as a single case.” International Sociology 2006, 21(5): 735-766
“No fear of comparisons or context: on the foundations of historical sociology.” Comparative Education 2006, 42(5): 337-362.
“Nordic social theory: between social philosophy and grounded theory.” Pp. 123-137 in Gerhard Delanty, editor, The Handbook of Contempoary European Social Theory. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0415355184.
“The Study of Nordic Varieties of Capitalism. A plea for contextual generalization through comparative specification”. economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter 2006; 8(1), 4-11. http://econsoc.mpifg.de/archive/econ_soc_8-1.pdf
“Can grounded theory solve the problems of its critics?” Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, 2005, 13(4), 379-408.
“Norden in the European state system. A presentation of Einar Maseng’s forgotten analysis”, in Ralf Eriksson, Markus Jäntti & Johan Willner, editors, Att förstå och förändra världen: En festskrift för Jan Otto Andersson, Åbo Akademis Förlag, Turku 2003, pp. 161-206. ISBN 951-765-154-6.
”Versuch über die Grundlagen der vergleichenden historischen Sozialwissenschaft”, pp. 125-177 in Harmut Kaelble & Jürgen Schriewer, editors, Vergleich und Transfer. Komparatistik in den Sozial-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Frankfurt & New York: Campus 2003, pp. 167-221. ISBN 3-59336884-6. (Translated by Jan-Henrik Meyer.) [English version «An Essay on the Foundations of Comparative Historical Social Science», ARENA Working Paper, No. 22, August 2002, University of Oslo, available at the website www.arena.uio.no.]
[with Stephen Van Holde], ”Introduction”, pp. xiii-xix in Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20, 2002.
[with Stephen Van Holde] “Killing for the State, Dying for the Nation. An introductory essay on the life cycle of conscription into Europe’s armed forces”, pp. 3-94 in Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20, 2002. [A longer version is planned as Arena Report, Oslo: University of Oslo/Norwegian Research Council.]
”Raymond Crotty’s world history”, Foreword, pp. ix-xxxiv in Raymond Crotty, When Histories Collide: The Development and Impact of Individualistic Capitalism. Edited by Raymond Crotty Jr., Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press (October) 2001. ISBN 0-7591-0158-2. [Also available as ARENA Reprint, No. 3, 2002.]
[with Sjur Kasa] ”The environmental problems of the international division of labour”, Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, 9: 1/2, 2001, s. 107-134.
”Realisms, constructivisms and environmental sociology.A comment on Ted Benton’s ‘Environmental Sociology: Controversy and Continuity’.” Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, 1/2001, s. 180-197.
”Understandings of theory in the social sciences”, in Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes, chief editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amsterdam: Pergamon/Elsevier, 2001. [Earlier version available as ARENA Working Paper, 33/1999.]
”Employment, unemployment, and ageing in the Western European welfare states”, pp. 451-506 in Pascal Petit and Luc Soete (editors), Technology and the Future of European Employment, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2001. ISBN 1-84064-517-2. [Also available as ARENA Reprint, No. 14, October 2002.]
”Stein Rokkan’s thick comparisons”, Acta Sociologica, 43:4, 2000, pp. 381-398. [Special issue on Nordic classic sociology, edited by Tore Lindbekk and Peter Sohlberg.]
”Le economie nordiche”, Storia dell’economia mondiale dall’antichita’ ai giorno nostri, Ed. Valerio Castronovo, Vol. V. Modernization and the problem of underdevelopment 1945-80, Rome: Gius. Laterza & Figli 2000. [English version: ”The Nordic economies 1945-1980”, available as ARENA Working Paper, 6/February 2000.]
”Les significations historiques de l’européanisation”, L’Année de la régulation, Vol. 1, pp. 85-128. Paris: La Découverte 1997. (Translated into French by Marie Lajus). [Also available as ARENA reprint, No. 3, 1998. — English manuscript available as ”The historical meanings of europeanisation”, ARENA working paper, No. 24, September 1997, 43 pp.]
”Johan Åkerman’s dualistische Synthese”, pp. 31-55 in Gottfried Eisermann, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Lars Mjøset, Johan Åkerman’s ‘Das Problem der sozialökonomischen Synthese’, Vademecum zu einem Klassiker des skandinavischen Institutionalismus, Düsseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 1997. Companion volume to 1997 reprint of Åkerman’s Das Problem der sozialökonomischen Synthese. [English manuscript available.]
”Western European integration — an historical perspective extended into the 1990s”, pp. 151-190 in Walter Schütze & Jon Bingen, editors, Europe at the end of the 90s, Oslo: Europaprogrammet 1996. [Also available as ARENA reprint, No. 11, 1996.]
”Pays Scandinaves: Des régulations originales en crise”, pp. 398-408 in Robert Boyer & Yves Saillard, eds., Théorie de la régulation. L’état des savoirs. Paris: La Découverte 1995.
”The Nordic Economies and their External Challenges”, pp. 71-84 in Frank Brouwer, Valerio Lintner & Michael Newman, eds., Economic Policy Making and the European Union, London: The Federal Trust 1994.
[with Ådne Cappelen, Jan Fagerberg & Bent Sofus Tranøy], ”Norway: Changing the model”, in Perry Anderson & Patrick Camiller, editors, Mapping Europe’s Left, London: Verso 1994, p. 33-54. [Also available as ARENA reprint, No. 1, 1995.]
[with Sjur Kasa] ”Environmental problems and techno-economic paradigms. A contribution to the history of environmental problems”, accepted for publication in Robert Delorme & Kurt Dopfer, editors, The Political Economy of Diversity, [Selected Proceedings from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy 1992 Conference] Aldershot: Edward Elgar 1994. [Norwegian version in Vardøger, 21/1992.]
”Norwegian political economy”, in Anne Cohen Kiel, Continuity and Change. Aspects of Contemporary Norway, Oslo: Norwegian University Press 1993, pp. 107-130.
”The Nordic Model never existed, but does it have a future?”, Scandinavian Studies, 64, 4, Fall 1992, pp. 652-671.[Reprinted in the five volume collection: Bob Jessop, editor, Regulation Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar 2000.]
[with Jan Fagerberg, Ådne Cappelen] ”Structural change and economic policy: the Norwegian model under pressure”, Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 46, 1992, pp. 95-107.
”Comparative Typologies of Development Patterns: the Menzel/Senghaas Framework”, in Lars Mjøset, editor, Contributions to the Comparative Study of Development, [Proceedings from Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Symposium 1990, Vol. 2.], Oslo: Institute for Social Research, Report 92: 2, 1992, pp. 96-162.
”The Turn of Two Centuries. A Comparison of British and U.S. hegemony”, pp. 21-48 i David P. Rapkin, ed., World leadership and hegemony, Vol. 5 of International Political Economy Yearbook, Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990.
[with Ådne Cappelen, Jan Fagerberg Rune Skarstein], ”The Decline of Social Democratic State Capitalism in Norway”, New Left Review, 181, May/June 1990, pp. 60-94.
[with Arne Kiel], ”Wage Formation in the Norwegian Industry 1840-1985”, Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1, 1990, pp. 19-49. [Reprinted in Karl Gunnar Persson, editor, The Economic Development of Denmark and Norway since 1870, Aldershot: Elgar, pp. 461-492.]
”The Geyer archives”, in Nils Petter Gleditsch & Olav Njølstad, editors, Arms races - technological and political dynamics, London: Sage 1990, pp. 276-284.
”Norway’s full-employment oil-economy — flexible adjustment or paralysing rigidities?”. Scandinavian Political Studies, 12, 4, 1989, pp. 1-29.
”Nordic economic policies in the 1970s and 1980s”, International Organization, 41, 3, (Summer) 1987, pp. 403-456. [Reprinted in the five volume collection: Bob Jessop, Regulation Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar 2000.]
[with Jan Otto Andersson], ”The Transformation of the Nordic Models”, Cooperation and Conflict, 22, 4, 1987, pp. 227-243.
”Export-led growth with equity. Norway in the phases of the modern world economy”, in Kumar Rupesinghe, editor, Development assistance in the year 2000: Political and Social Conditions in Norway, Oslo: Institute for Social Research, Report 87:9, October 1987, pp. 123-162.
”Regulation and the institutionalist tradition”, in Lars Mjøset & Jan Bohlin, editors, Introduksjon til reguleringskolen, Arbejdspapirer fra Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, Nr.21, Aalborg 1985, pp. 1-101.
”The US Hegemony in the Postwar World Economy”, in L. Lindberg, A. Leijins & K. Engberg, editors, American Futures; The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Conferance Papers, No.4, 1984, Stockholm, pp. 31-54.
[with Trond Petersen] ”Class and Gender: A Note on Class Structure in Norway and USA”, Acta Sociologica, 26, 1983, pp. 49-60.
“Thorstein Veblen: The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and other Essays” pp. 535-536 in Dietmar Herz & Veronika Weinberger, hrsg. Lexikon ökonomischer Werke. Düsseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 2006. ISBN 3878811586.
“Johan Åkerman: Ekonomisk teori” pp. 5-6 in Dietmar Herz & Veronika Weinberger, hrsg. Lexikon ökonomischer Werke. Düsseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 2006. ISBN 3878811586.
”Nordic Comparative Historical Macrosociology”, pp. 63-69 in Margareta Bertilsson & Göran Therborn, editors, From a Doll’s House to the Welfare State: Reflections on Nordic Sociology, Vol. 8 of ”Social Knowledge: Heritage, challenges, perspectives”, Pre-Congress Volumes for the ISA 14th World Congress of Sociology, 1998. Madrid: The International Sociological Association, 1998.
[with Fredrik Engelstad] ”Introduction”, Comparative Social Research, Vol. 16, 1997, pp. xxi-xvii. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.
[with Fredrik Engelstad] «Introduction», Comparative Social Research, Vol. 15, 1995, pp. xi-xxi. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.
”Ireland towards the end of the century”, The Irish Independent, January 19, 1994.
”The Influence of Regulation Theory on Nordic Studies of Economic Policies and Social Development”, La lettre de la régulation, No. 6, Fevrier 1993, p. 1-2. Includes bibliography.
”Johan Åkerman”, in G. Hodgson, M. Tool & W. J. Samuels, editors, Handbook on Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar [forthcoming 1994].
”Iceland”, ”Norway”, ”Scandinavia”, pp. 407-408, pp. 655-656, pp. 817-818, in Joel Krieger, et. al., editors, The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, New York 1993. Revised versions for 2nd edition, 2001.
”The Long 1960s in the Nordic Countries”, i Nordiskt 60-tal. Uppbrott och konfrontation/ The Nordic 60s. Upheaval and Confrontation. (Exhibition Catalogue), Helsinki: Nordiskt Konstcentrum/Nordic Arts Centre, 1990, pp. 19-21.
”Challenges to the welfare state”, The Norseman, 30, 4/5, 1990, Special issue: Norwegian Literature, pp. 68-73.
[Review of Fritz W. Scharpf, Sozialdemokratische Krisenpolitik in Europa, Frankfurt a.M. 1987], European Sociological Review, 5, 1, May 1989, pp. 97-102.
[Review of R. Erikson, et. al., The Scandinavian Model] in Acta Sociologica, 31, 1, 1988, pp. 81-87.
”The Limits of Neoclassical Institutionalism” [A Review essay of Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations], Journal of Peace Research, 22, 1, 1985, pp. 79-86.
[with Nils Butenschøn and Kristian Berg Harpviken]. The United States and the Greater Middle East – a main axis in world politics. (Translation of a paper published in Norwegian in the journal Vardøger, 33, 2012, 120-182. Translation by Lars Mjøset, October 2017. This paper will be revised and turned into a longer manuscript 2019-2020.]
[with Ådne Cappelen] “Economics and the others”. 2009, draft 70 pp. Unpublished.
”The ‘nature’ of social science”. Author’s translation of an essay published in Norwegian in i Tor Arve Benjaminsen & Hanne Svarstad, red., Samfunnsperspektiver på miljø og utvikling, Oslo: Tano/Aschehoug 1998, revised edition 2002.
[with Kristen Nordhaug], ”Atlantic and Pacific integration — A comparative study of postwar Western Europe and East Asia”, paper presented to the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, February 16-20, 1999, 70 pp. Draft February 1999.
”Is middle range the broadest possible range of social science theories?” Paper presented at the Norwegian National Conference in Sociology, Svalbard, June 18-21, 1998
[with Sjur Kasa] ”Environmental problems and the international division of labour”, Paper to the 19th Nordic Congress of Sociology, Copenhagen, June 13-15, 1997, 89 pp. (Revised and shortened version published in 2001.)