Today: 35 years old, two kids, Economist, Research Fellow (University of Oslo and the National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research in Norway).

The past: IB at AHUWC (USA), B.A. (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at Oxford (UK), Economics at the University of Oslo.

Interests

General academic interests: Social science, decision theory, Russian politics and history, economics, political philosophy.

Specifically:
- Decision theory (rational choice, cognitive mechanisms, addiction, Bayesianism, paradoxes)
- The philosophy of the social sciences (macro vs. micro approaches, probability, correlation and causation)
- Russian politics and history (the collapse of communism, models, cultural explanations)
- Economic theory (everything, economic crisis)
- Political philosophy (justice, rights, utilitarianism, paternalism)

Address

Work: SIRUS, Hans O. Melberg, Box 565 Sentrum, N-0105 Oslo, Norway. Phone: (+ 47) 22 34 04 41, Fax: (+47) 22 34 04 01 e-mail: hom@sirus.no

Private: Hans O. Melberg, Folke Bernadottesv. 1B, N-0862 Oslo, Norway, Phone: (+ 47) 22 23 18 49, e-mail: hans.melberg@gmail.com