Carnegie Council

Alexander W. Cappelen is head of the Center for Ethics and Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and senior advisor at the Bank of Norway.

His research interests are in the fields of fiscal federalism, social choice theory, and theories of distributive justice. He holds a doctorate in economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Cappelen has published extensively in international journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Economics and Philosophy,< I> and Social Choice and Welfare. 

Alexander W. Cappelen is an Ethics and Debt Project participant.

Resources by this Author:

• National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief [Abstract]
• The Moral Rationale for International Fiscal Law [Abstract]