Roland Paulsen is associate professor of sociology at Lund University. He is the author of Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance and coauthor of Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say.
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Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker
There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.
Roland Paulsen