Ola Innset

• Innset, Ola (2026). Et optimalt økonomisk system. Trygve Haavelmo i de norske systemdebattene. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nevalainen, Pasi & Innset, Ola (2026). Politics back in business? State ownership, historical change, and the Nordic cases. Scandinavian Economic History Review. ISSN 0358-5522. 74(3), s. 195–195. doi: 10.1080/03585522.2026.2698051. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2025). Nyliberalismen i praksis. Barnehageforliket og lobbyvirksomhet på Stortinget. I Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Ekberg, Espen & Øksendal, Lars Fredrik Moe (Red.), Skarpe briller og bitre piller, Festskrift til Harald Espeli og Finn Erhard Johannessen. Bokstav og bilde AS. ISSN 9788230369449. s. 225–235. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2024). State-owned enterprises after the market turn: Hybridisation and the historical development of nested paradoxes in the case of Norway. Business History. ISSN 0007-6791. doi: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2353661. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article studies the recent history of state owned enterprises (SOEs) in Norway through the lens of paradox theory. A tension between busi- ness goals and political goals lie at the heart of SOEs, and I analyse processes of partial privatisations in the 1990s and early 2000s as attempts to overcome this original paradox. Through the public listing of major SOEs, the Norwegian state became the largest owner on the Oslo stock exchange and a new corporate governance setup for these entities arose. I propose to see this development as a case of historically developed nested paradoxes, and argue that a new paradox emerged in which the Norwegian state attempted to reach political goals through the ownership of SOEs by not having explicit political goals. I find two main equilibrating mechanisms for this paradox, and discuss some of the ways paradoxical tensions of SOEs still persist despite attempts to overcome them

• Innset, Ola (2024). National Interests as Positive Externalities: Headquarters Retainment as Justification for Hybrid State-owned Enterprises in Norway (2000–2021). Enterprise & Society. ISSN 1467-2227. doi: 10.1017/eso.2024.25. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  As a result of the partial privatization and public listing of two large state-owned enterprises in 2001, the Norwegian state became the largest owner at the Oslo stock exchange. A new mode of corporate governance was developed, through which retainment of the corporate headquarters (HQ) of hybrid state-owned enterprises became the sole political goal of continued state ownership in these corporations. This article explores the perceived benefits to the national economy of these company HQ through an investigation of public documents and interviews with key stakeholders. The article argues that the main function of the goal of HQ retainment was to portray national interests and political goals as mere (positive) externalities of HQ location, and that this goal was formalized due to a perceived need to depoliticize the corporate governance of hybrid state-owned enterprises.

• Innset, Ola & Rudberg, Elin Åström (2024). Varieties of Marketization. Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. 9(1), s. 11–27. doi: 10.18261/nwr.9.1.2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article develops a new framework for the study of market reforms in Nordic welfare states based on a division between “markets”, “quasi-markets” and “pseudo-markets”. The two latter types of marketization have been the most common, and the article exemplifies them by revisiting the early 1990s Swedish school reform, “Friskolereformen”—which instigated a quasi-market for publicly funded schools run by both for-profit companies and non-profit actors—and the Norwegian hospital reform, “Foretaksreformen” of 2001—which created what we call a pseudo-market, in which public hospitals were reorganized to mimic the structures of capitalist enterprise. By discussing the different reforms in relation to justification, the type of welfare state sector, and the political orientation of the government implementing the reform, our study sheds new light on similarities and differences in marketization processes in the Nordics. Particularly, we find that the justification for the reforms differed, with the Swedish reform being justified in ideological terms and the Norwegian in technocratic terms. Contrary to some literature, we hold that marketization has fundamentally altered Nordic welfare states and the relationship between capital and society in the Nordics, and we suggest that our framework could be used for future comparative studies of market reforms.

• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Innset, Ola (2024). Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox. Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space. ISSN 0263-7758. doi: 10.1177/02637758241311020. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article advances a new theoretical understanding of the global political economy of austerity through an examination of austerity policies in Norway, a country with soaring fiscal surpluses. Critical scholarship has analyzed austerity as an incoherent economic idea – a product of unreasonable public accounting, or simply ideological nonsense. No national context seems to confirm such a view more than Norway, where wage growth has been curbed and welfare spending restrained in a context of unprecedented public prosperity. Yet, this article argues that there is a rational core to Norwegian ‘austerity without deficits’, if seen from the vantage point of capital in globally integrated neoliberal capitalism. Examining the development of Norwegian economic policies since the 1970s, we demonstrate how the Norwegian state has imposed austerity measures in order to bolster national capital’s global competitiveness. Disciplining labor and public budgets is, we argue, the cost of doing business in today’s world economy. We call this uneven and combined austerity: combining national economies in a global structure of interlocking dependence, neoliberal austerity imposes limits to popular demands for welfare and better material conditions of living, even in countries where public money abounds.

• Innset, Ola (2024). Tor Bjørklund i samarbeid med Axel Fjeldavli Norske partier og velgere. Valgresultatenes historiske røtter. Historisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0018-263X. 103(1), s. 69–72. doi: 10.18261/ht.103.1.8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2023). Dual Argument, Double Truth: On the Continued Importance of the State in Neoliberal Thought. Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET). ISSN 1053-8372. 45(4). doi: 10.1017/S105383722200044X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  It has been established that the neoliberal creed arising in the interwar and early postwar years, despite its strong rejection of economic planning, also entailed a rejection of laissez-faire liberalism. This article argues that recent attempts at construing early neoliberalism as thus being a more nuanced or moderate creed than later iterations are nonetheless flawed. The “dual argument” of early neoliberalism indicated a new approach to market liberalism in which the state was not seen as the market’s opposite but rather its precondition. This important move is obscured by the language of moderation and nuance. In place of “the radicalization thesis,” the second part of the article considers Philip Mirowski’s concept of a “double-truth doctrine” and argues that an appreciation of the state for social and economic governance is a common feature of different neoliberalisms, which nonetheless differ in their preferred policy suggestions for the use of state power.

• Innset, Ola (2023). From open borders to ‘rasisit’: libertarianism and populism on the Scandinavian periphery (1980–1994). Journal of Political Ideologies. ISSN 1356-9317. s. 373–391. doi: 10.1080/13569317.2023.2249647. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In 1980s Norway, a group committed to libertarian ideology became influential within Fremskrittspartiet. This new party became known for its opposition not only to taxation and public spending, but also to non-western immigration. The libertarians within the same party, however, advocated open borders. The libertarians were ousted from the party in 1994, but libertarianism has remained a key plank in the party’s otherwise national-conservative ideology. Crossovers and alliances between cosmopolitan libertarians and nationalistic anti-immigration groups have become commonplace, and through an analysis of the Norwegian libertarian movement, I argue that these are possible due to the idea of open borders only holding a peripheral position within libertarian ideology. The issue of open borders was given some attention in debates between libertarians and populists within FrP, but was not an important ideological concept for the intellectuals behind the libertarian journal Ideer om Frihet. The article thus argues that a commitment to what we may call cosmopolitanism does exist within libertarianism and may be used to make sense of core concepts such as individualism, freedom and markets, but is nonetheless expendable for most libertarians, as they were for the Norwegian libertarians who found a home in the country’s most nativist political party.

• Innset, Ola (2022). Metahistory as Public History: On Introducing Metahistorical Perspectives in Events about Events. History: The Journal of the Historical Association. ISSN 0018-2648. 107(375), s. 392–407. doi: 10.1111/1468-229X.13265. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article argues that the introduction of ‘metahistorical perspectives’ can greatly enrich the practice of public history. Through the example of a series of public events about important historical events held at the National Library of Norway, it is argued that an attention to microhistory, pedagogical theory and especially William Sewell Jr.’s theory of events can be beneficial when programming events for the general public. This focus on ‘metahistorical perspectives’ in the practice of public history stands in contrast to widely held notions of public history as entailing simplifications and ‘dumbing down’ of academic knowledge.

• Innset, Ola (2021). An Army of Fighters for Freedom. The social environment of the first Mont Pélerin-Society conference. Revue d' Economie politique. ISSN 0373-2630. 131(5), s. 753–776. doi: 10.3917/redp.315.0035. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In 1944, Friedrich Hayek gave a lecture at Stanford University where he referred to the organization he was planning to set up as “an army of fighters for freedom”. This article investigates the social environment of “Hayek’s army” by looking specifically at the founding conference of the Mont-Pèlerin Society, some three years later. An exploration of this famous 10-day conference in the Swiss Alps shows that the transnational group of neoliberal thinkers was characterized by social privilege, something that contributes to contextualising their rightleaning political views. Several of the American conference attendees hailed from more modest backgrounds than their European counter parts, however, and the views on display during the conference were far from uniform. This was especially the case when discussions centred on redistribution and poverty, where, to widespread criticism, Milton Friedman presented his famous proposal for a negative income tax.

• Innset, Ola (2020). Review of Janek Wasserman’s The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019, 354 pp. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. 13(2). doi: 10.23941/ejpe.v13i2.517. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hverven, Sigurd; Dybedahl, Oscar; Innset, Ola & Kristjánsson, Mímir (2019). Avkledd liberalisme. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. s. 41–52. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3054-2019-01-05. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Innset, Ola (2020). Markedsvendingen. Nyliberalismens historie i Norge. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 9788245031966. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Reinventing Liberalism. The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920 - 1947). Springer. ISBN 9783030388850. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38885-0. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hverven, Sigurd; Innset, Ola; Kristjánsson, Mímir & Dybedahl, Oscar (2020). Markedsmennesker: Kritikk av tidsånden. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISBN 9788282655576. 224 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Innset, Ola (2026). Friedrich Hayek. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Einevoll, Gaute & Innset, Ola (2025). #108: Om penger, skatt og kampen om verdiene { med Ola Innset. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Johansen, Anders; Innset, Ola & Pilskog, Ingjald (2025). Ola Innset: Kampen om verdiene | Forum for vitenskap og demokrati. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Antallet milliardærer vokser for hvert år, og de bruker enorme summer for å påvirke politikk og valgresultater. Ola Innset Forsker, Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur, Universitetet i Oslo.  Antallet milliardærer vokser for hvert år, og de bruker enorme summer for å påvirke politikk og valgresultater. De rikeste gyver løs på offentlig velferd og pengebruk. Ola Innset har nylig kommet med en kritikk av de ideologiske premissene for denne offensiven, blant annet som svar på Martin Bech Holtes bok «Landet som ble for rikt». Ved å rykke opp i fastlåste forestillinger om verdiskaping og produktivitet viser Innset at det ikke er slik at privat sektor skaper verdier mens offentlig sektor bruker dem opp. Hovedargumentet er at velferdsstaten både kan og bør bli større, og at det er nettopp det som må til for å hindre at høyreradikale bevegelser får ytterligere vind i seilene.  Ola Innsets siste bok: Kampen om verdiene - Om velferdsstaten og landet som fikk for mange rike (2025). Møteleder: Anders Johansen

• Innset, Ola (2023). John L. Campbell and John A. Hall, What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 299, $28.95 (hardcover). Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET). ISSN 1053-8372. doi: 10.1017/S1053837222000220. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2023). Context and the Neoliberalism Wars. Œconomia – Histoire/Epistémologie/Philosophie. ISSN 2113-5207. 13(1), s. 101–114. doi: 10.4000/oeconomia.14061. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2023). Neoliberalism and Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2023). Ideen som trollbinder både Silicon Valley-kapitalister og europeiske sosialister. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2023). Per Kleppe - sosialliberalist? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2023). Lobbying for a Norwegian kindergarten market: Private barnehagers landsforbund, 1992 – 2003. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). Neoliberalism as Common Sense Conservatism: Kåre Willoch's Translation of Henry Hazlitt. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). State Ownership in the HQ Economy. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). Priskrig og krigspriser (om Rupert Russells "Price Wars"). Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). The Paradox of Stateowned Enterprise Hybrids. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). Preteritum maskin. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). Steile fronter. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). En dyp åre av irrasjonalitet (intervju med Geir Pollen). [Journal]. Vinduet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). Husbanken og boligpolitikken 1996–2021. En jubileumsbok [The housing bank and the housing policies – an anniversary book]. Scandinavian Economic History Review. ISSN 0358-5522. doi: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2130974. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2022). The paradox of hybrid SOEs. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Digital syndebukk. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Paradoxes of innovation in a hybrid SOE. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Børs uten katedral. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Makt uten ansvar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Neoliberalism and the Art School. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Idé til personlighet. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Nyliberalismen som en mer indirekte styringskunst? Ny tid. ISSN 0803-3498. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Sett oss i sving! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Håpe på Arbeiderpartiet? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Aps flakkende blikk. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2021). Kunst som velferd. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). The market turn in Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Civita-notat i forsvarsmodus. Minervanett. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Ola-notat#1 - 2020: Et svar til Lars Peder Nordbakkens «Anmeldelse og kritikk av en ny fortelling om (ny)liberalisme» (Civita-notat #18 – 2020). Minervanett. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Virkelige tankesmier. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Tenk om det går. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Aldri mer 12. mars. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Bundet til oljemasta. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Vorbehalte gegen Massendemokratie. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ISSN 0174-4909. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). En råtten avokado. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Nyliberalisme før og nå. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Den tapte våren. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Nyliberalisme - en forklaring. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Jo, vi har råd. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Jobbe litt mindre. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Presidentens deal. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Tjener eller herre? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Glorifisert marked. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Naiv tro på markedsmekanismene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Selvstendig sparegris. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Ap og høyrebølgen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Tomt på kontoen? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Review of Janek Wasserman’s The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019, 354 pp. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. doi: 10.23941/ejpe.v13i2.517. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Herning, Linn & Innset, Ola (2020). Når staten skal leke butikk. I Hverven, Sigurd; Innset, Ola; Kristjánsson, Mímir & Dybedahl, Oscar (Red.), Markedsmennesker: Kritikk av tidsånden. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282655576. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Workers of Europe: Compete? (Roarmag#10). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Ikke glem økonomien (23.12.2020). Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Transnasjonalt gjennombrud - 18.9.2020. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2020). Med markedet mot bunnen - 18.9.2020. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hverven, Sigurd; Innset, Ola; Kristjánsson, Mímir & Dybedahl, Oscar (2020). Forord: Markedet og det nye mennesket. I Hverven, Sigurd; Innset, Ola; Kristjánsson, Mímir & Dybedahl, Oscar (Red.), Markedsmennesker: Kritikk av tidsånden. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282655576. s. 7–26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Slottemo, Hilde Gunn & Innset, Ola (2019). «Børnene ser gråblege ud». Min kilde, faglig samtale. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Neoliberalism with Norwegian characteristics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Til Dovre faller. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Løsningen på Nordbakkens Hayek-gåte. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Veien videre. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Ti tusen milliarder. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Prisen for kunnskap. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Exit demokratiet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Sparkesykkel-isme. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). SVs skjebnevalg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Pengegaloppen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Det angår oss alle. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Høyre-symbiose. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Slipp pressen fri. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Uklart hat. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Digital kapital. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2019). Quinn Slobodian, Globalists - The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Agora. ISSN 1380-6319. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Markedsvendingen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Fascismens arv: økonomi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Nyliberal splittelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Nyliberalismens nytte. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Kapitalismen og nyliberalismen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Being Simon Malkenes. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Falsk konsensus. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Den rette tro. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Innset, Ola (2018). Elskede Europa. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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