economics

Clownvertising, Terrorism, and Candy Cane Briefs

December 17, 2009

I‘ve always been interested in economics, because economics is a great way to model, measure and understand human behavior. In a TED-talk I watched over a bowl of indian curry (I got stuck alone in the office over lunch), Loretta Napoleoni explains the economics of terrorism and how it relates to the economics of the [...]

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The Great October Launch Fest!

October 1, 2009

It’s just one of those days. Twingly launches it’s Twingly Channels, Google launches Wave, and (admittedly somewhat smaller) Stockholm School of Economics’ MCXL launches their new website. From what I can tell from the site, the latter is in test-phase right now, so I’ll post the link later. We were actually planning to launch some [...]

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Q&A From The BBH Labs Post on Honesty

September 4, 2009

Yesterday, BBH Labs wrote an interesting post commenting on some of my thoughts on internet transparency and gossip. The post itself, as well as the comments, are well worth a read. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I naturally wanted in on the discussion myself, but as I started writing a comment on their [...]

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Spotify Goes Mobile and Offline!

May 28, 2009

When I lectured at Stockholm School of Economics about the future of music and video I remember receiving a few critical questions about mobility: “What about when you’re mobile?”, “What about when you’re on a plane?”, “What about when you don’t have an internet connection?”. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your answer: And by the [...]

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Jedi Training Lecture

October 27, 2008

Today will be a day of lecturing on globalization, economics, outsourcing, transaction costs, the upside-down Coase Theorem, and what that has to do with the changing media landscape. Try for example to do a parallell reading of Friedman‘s “The World Is Flat” and Forrester Research‘s “Groundswell” or Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody“, and move straight from [...]

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The Undercover Educator

August 21, 2008

I think that sometimes, we’re over-analyzing and under-synthesizing. We’re reading all these complicated books, finding advanced psychological explanations or statistical correlations. Sometimes old truths just need a dead simple but inspirational explanation to be interesting and valuable. On some trip I went on a while back I bought a book in the airport bookstore. The [...]

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Resumé TV From What Felt Like The 80′s

June 6, 2008

Our Swedish advertising newspaper Resumé are running a documentary about the Swedish advertising world. In the first episode they visited first the Swedish Consumers Association (advertising skeptics) and then the Advertising Association of Sweden (pro advertising). They also visited some Swedish politicians. What was noteworthy was the prevailing view of advertising as something that people [...]

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Stockholms School of Economics

May 21, 2008

Just held a lecture for the masters students at the Stockholm School of Economics’ Media Management program. Smart people, fun topic, great discussions. Thanks for inviting me!

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Innovators, Painters and Poets

April 27, 2008

So I read that the Finnish agency 358 are drafting players from agencies like KesselsKramer, CPB and 180 (was with all these number names?). I also read that they’re going to work with ideas rather than advertising. Hmm… ideas rather than advertising… It sound ridiculous, but you know – I think they’re right in wording [...]

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WNOA: The World’s First Open Source Advertising Agency

April 22, 2008

What’s better than a free lunch? Well, sometimes, the lunch that you pay for is better. Here is why: Lionell Robbins’ definition of economics from 1935: “Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses” doesn’t accurately describe the field of economics as noted [...]

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