Bent Sofus Tranøy

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Hjertaker, Ingrid (2026). The European Central Bank: beyond the mandate. In Trondal, Jarle (Eds.), Research Handbook on International Bureaucracies. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781035310241. p. 411–425. doi: 10.4337/9781035310258.00039. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter asks three questions of the European Central Bank (ECB). Just how autonomous is it, through what mechanisms is its autonomy established and fortified, and how are the ECB's powers put to legitimate and not so legitimate use? We pursue these broad questions using the template offered in Barnett and Finnemore's (2004) pathbreaking book on international organizations as bureaucracies. The general conclusion is that the ECB enjoys a remarkable degree of autonomy. It obtains this status through a particular variant of the mode of delegation that typifies modern central banks, bolstered by mechanisms of authority that Barnett and Finnemore associate with legal-rational bureaucracies. The chapter argues that while undergoing a crisis-driven process of change, the ECB used its widened powers in highly consequential ways, doing harm to the citizens of crisis-ridden countries but also balancing three different social purposes, two of which lie beyond its formal remit.

• Schwartz, Herman Mark & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2026). Growth Models. In Maguire, Matthew & Wilson, Graham K. (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781035307784. p. 168–173. doi: 10.4337/9781035307784.00035. Full text in Research Archive
• Schwartz, H. Mark & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2025). Housing Inequalities and Home in Higher Income Countries, The Routledge Handbook of Home. Routledge. ISSN 9781003374428. p. 185–195. doi: 10.4324/9781003374428-19. Full text in Research Archive
• Bastesen, Jarle; Lange, Birthe Kåfjord & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2025). Making sense of uncertainty – Interrogating conceptions of the New Normal. Scandinavian Journal of Management. ISSN 0956-5221. 41(2). doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101407. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A world of poly-crisis stimulates concept formation. A popular term for understanding these events is ‘New Normal’. The increased use of this term reflects a demand for making sense of a world characterized by unpredictability and complexity. We will examine how the term New Normal is understood and used in current academic writing and what may these meanings imply for business? This article offers an integrative literature review of 307 articles published between 2006 and early 2023. Our review reveals significant empirical variation while at the ontological level we propose two categories: Those who claim we are in a new steady state vs. those who understand the current business environment as dominated by flux. To enable inferences about strategy and organizations, authors at a minimum need to be clear whether they perceive the new normal as a steady state or a permanent state of flux.

• Askim, Jostein; Forum, Bjørn Mo & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2024). The party politics of policy endurance: parliamentary settlements in Norway, 1980-2021. In Lucas, Patrick; Nabatchi, Tina; O’Flynn, Janine & Hart, Paul ’t (Ed.), Pathways to Positive Public Administration. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781803929163. p. 400–423. doi: 10.4337/9781803929170.00034. Full text in Research Archive
• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2024). Arbitrariness and Technocracy: The European Central Bank through Multiple Crises. In Fossum, John Erik & Batora, Jozef (Ed.), Differentiation and Dominance in Europe's Polycrises. Routledge. ISSN 9781003291190. p. 113–133. doi: 10.4324/9781003291190. Full text in Research Archive
• Øvald, Camilla Bakken; Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Raknes, Ketil (2024). Tales and theories as levers of expert influence: A case study of the Norwegian Oil Fund. Journal of Public Policy. ISSN 0143-814X. 44(3), p. 504–526. doi: 10.1017/S0143814X24000047. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Hjertaker, Ingrid (2024). Velferdsstaten som glemte boligpolitikken, Norske skyldnere: Gjeld og sparing i det norske hus. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403167. p. 105–140. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det sies ofte at økonomi er for viktig til å overlates til økonomer. Denne antologien er skapt av en gruppe forskere som ikke er økonomer, men som likevel studerer økonomi. Deres innfallsvinkel til feltet er at grensene for økonomien ikke lar seg markere. Ved å ta utgangspunkt i to svært utbredte økonomiske fenomener, gjeld og sparing, ønsker forfatterne i denne boken å undersøke aspekter økonomer gjerne ikke forholder seg til, og vil med det bidra til å utvide grensene for hva økonomisk forskning og tenkning kan og bør være.

• Høyer, Hans Christian; Madsbu, Jens Petter & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Gjørv-kommisjonen: Nasjonal terapi og forvaltningspolitisk legitimitet. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS). ISSN 0040-716X. 63(3), p. 194–208. doi: 10.18261/tfs.63.3.3. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  English summary The report of the public investigative commission was extremely well received by media, interest organizations and political bodies when released one year after the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011. Upon closer reading, however, students of policing and public administration have argued that although meticulous and convincing in its depiction of events, it suffers from serious analytical deficiencies. How to make sense of this? Our point of departure is to distinguish between the emotional and the administrative needs that arise after a national disaster and trauma: Collective therapy versus administrative and political reform. Thus, a dilemma and a paradox emerge. The dilemma is that in order to work therapeutically and contribute to reconciliation, investigations of this kind must renounce analytical clarity somewhat. The paradox is that its therapeutic success conferred an administrative legitimacy on the report that its analytical deficiencies did not merit.

• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco. Comparative European Politics. ISSN 1472-4790. 20(6). doi: 10.1057/s41295-022-00317-1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How should history judge the euro crisis and the way it was handled? Does it qualify as a policy fiasco in the sense that it was avoidable? Or could the crisis at least have been handled in a manner which substantially reduced its destructive impact on the economic and social welfare and politics of Europe? These questions necessitate counter-factual analysis. Nevertheless, they deserve attention. How history is interpreted impacts decisions about today and tomorrow. The article explores three discourses on economic governance: on financial stability, fiscal policy and on growth. Each discourse came with pathologies: they did not sensitize decision-makers to crucial negative consequences of the policy choices they privileged at decisive points in the sequence of boom, bust and (policy engineered) painfully slow recovery. The ECB has quietly changed its ways, but unwillingness to confront the crisis head-on as a policy fiasco can obstruct learning opportunities that are important for the EU and the Eurozone going forward.

• Christensen, Ingrid; Fossum, John Erik & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). From American Dream to Nordic Realities? In Hauhart, Robert C. & Sardoč, Mitja (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2. Routledge. ISSN 9781032352961. p. 64–120. doi: 10.4324/9781003326243-6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter examines whether the Nordic region has surpassed today's America on two of the most central tenets of the American Dream, defined as individualism and equal opportunity. An important reason is that there are certain identifiable Nordic values that are institutionalized within and across the five states that make up the Nordic region. These are referred to as the Nordic Model, a distinct Nordic approach to democracy, a social market economy, and gender equality. The chapter's starting assumption is that individualism and equal opportunity as core tenets of the American Dream resonate strongly with the values that underpin the Nordic Model, even if the Nordic Model is based on a different calibration of these. The chapter operationalizes individualism and equal opportunity and undertakes an extensive literature survey and examination of a wide range of statistics in order to assess the claim that the Nordic region may have surpassed today's America on key tenets of the American Dream.

• Øvald, Camilla Bakken & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Negotiating Dilemmas of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. In Porte, C de la; Eydal, GB; Kauko, Jaakko; Nohrstedt, D; t'Hart, P & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (Ed.), Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192856296. p. 196–215. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192856296.003.0010. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Norwegian state’s ability to combine investing abroad, with relatively moderate and rule-based fiscal spending, compares favourably with most other cases where governance structures have been exposed to large resource-driven income streams. This chapter homes in on two critical junctures in the development of the Norwegian sSovereign Wealth Fund and shows how dilemmas found stable solutions through two conceptual innovations. Established in 1990, the fund’s institutional framework evolved, with the development of a fiscal rule in 2001 and ethical guidelines in 2004 as key decision points. The fiscal rule connecting expected real return and government spending is critical for Norway’s economic policy and the ability to balance spending versus the need to save and protect the non-petroleum sector. Ethical guidelines similarly relieved the Norwegian political system of a potentially debilitating tension between the aim of maximizing financial returns and ethical considerations. However, for 30 years it has been taken for granted that the interest of future generations equals wealth which in turn equals financial savings abroad. The climate agenda and the emerging consensus on the need for a green transition may challenge the terms upon which the two great dilemmas described in this chapter has been resolved until now.

• Porte, Caroline de la; Eydal, Gudny Bjørk; Kauko, Jaakko; Nohrstedt, Daniel; Hart, Paul T. & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Introduction: Studying Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries. In Porte, C de la; Eydal, GB; Kauko, Jaakko; Nohrstedt, D; t'Hart, P & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (Ed.), Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192856296. p. 1–22. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192856296.003.0001. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This introductory chapter sets out the objectives, approach and methodology of this volume. The main rationale for the volume is to identify, reconstruct and narrate instances of governments in Nordic countries ‘getting it right’, and to do so in a manner that is analytically robust yet presented in easy-to-read and helpful-to-teach case-study narratives. It presents the central analytical tool that all case studies use, the PPPE assessment framework, which calls on analysts to ascertain cases against programmatic, process, political and endurance criteria. And it situates the question of individual instances of policy successes in Nordic instances in the context of the broader narrative about a ‘Nordic’ approach to politics, governance and public policy, in particular but not limited to socio-economic policies and the ethos and architecture of welfare states in Northern Europe. It concludes by offering some emerging patterns of success-enabling factors across the cases and by formulating implications for future research.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Sigurjonsson, Throstur Olaf (2022). Back from the Brink: Iceland's Successful Economic Recovery. In Porte, C de la; Eydal, GB; Kauko, Jaakko; Nohrstedt, D; t'Hart, P & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (Ed.), Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192856296. p. 388–408. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192856296.003.0019. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The story of Iceland’s successful economic recovery from financial meltdown in 2008 is different from the rest of this book. Temporally, it deals with a dramatic episode of crisis management, not ongoing public policy. Furthermore, while the typical policy success refers to a circumscribed programme, a full-scale economic crisis demands that fires are put out all over the place. Iceland had to deal with foreign policy, the IMF, financial, economic and social issues, simultaneously. To do so it combined Keynesian crisis fighting means such as propping up demand and capital controls We deem Iceland’s ability to stop the largest financial meltdown in history (relative to GDP) from wreaking lasting real economic damage a policy success along all four dimensions specified by the (PPPE)-framework, although the political success experienced by those who handled most of the clean-up job turned out to be more precarious than what they would have hoped for.

• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). The Dollar as a Mutual Problem: New Transatlantic Interdependence in Finance. Politics and Governance. 10(2), p. 198–207. doi: 10.17645/pag.v10i2.5028. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  When the 2007 global financial crisis hit financial markets, European leaders were quick to point the finger at US markets, excessive risk-taking, and insufficient regulation. However, it soon became apparent that European banks were more exposed than their Wall Street counterparts. With massive dollar liabilities, European banks were dependent on the US to act as a global lender of last resort. The crisis revealed a level of transatlantic interdependence that had been unknown to most observers and policymakers prior to the crisis. We argue that this represents a paradox, given that the project of the European Monetary Union was partly motivated by a desire to make Europe more independent from the US dollar. The euro was a response to the challenge of “it’s our dollar, but it’s your problem.” In this article, we examine how the European vulnerability to the US dollar that began post-Bretton Woods did not, in fact, disappear with the creation of a European currency. Instead, through financialization and deregulation, European financial markets developed new, complex interactions with US financial markets. This financialization of transatlantic banking flows created a new type of interdependence. As European banks were so heavily invested in US markets, this gave the US authorities a direct interest in bailing them out. While cross-border banking flows have decreased since the crisis, the interdependencies remain, and currency swaps were used once again to handle the economic fallout from Covid-19. In the area of financial and monetary policy, the transatlantic relationship remains strong and stable within a dollar hegemony.

• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). The European Central Bank. In Riddervold, Marianne; Trondal, Jarle & Newsome, Akasemi (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030517908. p. 339–355. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5_18. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter suggests that the European Central Bank´s (ECB’s) changed role over the last 10 years can be conceptualized by three modes of crisis handling: Denial, Mission Creep, and Mission Leap. The ECB was never intended to be a lender of last resort, but with the financial crisis, this was precisely what eurozone financial institutions needed. As the crisis evolved, member states themselves needed a sovereign lender of last resort, something the ECB was explicitly designed not to be. TheECB has “muddled forward” to a position of considerable strength. In terms of outcomes, the monetary union is moving forward (Scenario 3thus, “muddling through” (Scenario 2) almost seems too weak a description of the constitutionally messy process that led the ECB through the crisis.

• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). Finansialisering, kriser og langsomme transformasjoner. En kommentar til Thomas Piketty. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. p. 147–178. Full text in Research Archive
• Høyer, Hans Christian; Madsbu, Jens Petter & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). Kultur som designvariabel: en advarsel. In Blindheim, Bjørn-Tore; Klemsdal, Lars & Røvik, Kjell Arne (Ed.), Design av organisasjon. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215051727. Full text in Research Archive
• Stenstad, Eirik Tegle & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). Failing Forward in Financial Stability Regulation. In Riddervold, Marianne; Trondal, Jarle & Newsome, Akasemi (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030517908. p. 401–419. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5_22. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter asks three questions: To what degree has the European financial and debt crises spurred new policies and purposeful action toward improved financial stability regulation? Secondly, how can we theorize the processes that link crises and policy? And thirdly, we ask if what has been achieved is likely to be sufficient to avoid another crisis? We measure policy change along three dimensions: level of aggregation, level of governance, and functional scope, and find significant change along the two first. This is explained by the “failing forward plus learning” framework that we develop. We do, however, find enough chinks in the EUs newly erected armour to predict that processes of failing forward will continue. Thus, we conclude that muddling through best describes the EU’s post-crisis efforts in financial stability regulation.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Schwartz, Herman Mark (2020). Illusions of Convergence: The Persistent Simplification of a Wicked Crisis. In Fossum, John Erik & Batora, Jozef (Ed.), Towards a Segmented European Political Order. The European Union's Post-crises Conundrum. Routledge. ISSN 9781138495333. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus; Stamsø, Mary Ann & Hjertaker, Ingrid (2019). Equality as a driver of inequality? Universalistic welfare, generalised creditworthiness and financialised housing markets. West European Politics. ISSN 0140-2382. 43(2). doi: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1612161. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Scandinavian countries are known for their universalistic welfare states, corporatist coordination, strong economic performances and egalitarian outcomes, an institutional combination often referred to as the “The Nordic Model”. However, these countries also possess volatile and increasingly vulnerable housing markets characterized by periods of sharp increases in prices and rents and some of the highest debt to income ratios in the world. The combination of a universalistic welfare state and housing market dynamics sets off a self-reinforcing process of increased stratification and re-familialisation. How did these orderly, egalitarian and welfareoriented societies end up with housing markets that expose their citizens to increasing risk while driving inequality? The key lies in the effect the Nordic welfare state has on financialized housing markets. Successful decommodification of human lives leads to generalized creditworthiness which stimulates asset price inflation and new wealth and risk inequalities.

• Øvald, Camilla Bakken; Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Raknes, Ketil (2019). The Norwegian Petroleum Fund as Institutionalized Self-Restraint. In Compton, Mallory E. & Hart, Paul T. (Ed.), Great Policy Successes.. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198843719. p. 244–263. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198843719.003.0013. Full text in Research Archive
• Høyer, Hans Christian; Madsbu, Jens Petter & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). 22. juli-rapporten: Et egnet styringsdokument for Nærpolitireformen? In Sørli, Vanja Lundgren & Larsson, Paul (Ed.), Politireformer: Idealer, realiteter, retorikk og praksis. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202609016. p. 113–135. Full text in Research Archive
• Raudla, Ringa; Mjøset, Lars; Kattel, Rainer; Cepilovs, Aleksanders; Mikheeva, Olga & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). Different Faces of Fiscal Bureaucracy. Halduskultuur. ISSN 1736-6070. 19(1), p. 5–36. doi: 10.32994/ac.v19i1.177. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In light of the growing importance of finance ministries and the financial dimension in policy-making, opening up the “black box” of fiscal bureaucracies is more warranted than ever. Our paper addresses the following research question: What kinds of roles can be assumed by fiscal bureaucrats in fiscal policy-making and budgeting? We propose four dichotomies that can be employed for examining the roles played by fiscal bureaucracies: 1) Developers vs guardians; 2) Initiators vs followers; 3) Mediators vs insulators; 4) Calculators vs (gu)estimators. In developing these dimensions, we juxtaposed the insights from various streams of institutionalist research and also on literature on public budgeting and public policy with the themes that emerged from the interviews we conducted in four different countries: Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and Norway. We find that fiscal bureaucracies in Estonia and Latvia tend to be closer to the guardian-insulator-guestimator ends of the continuums, whereas the officials in Sweden and especially Norway lean towards the developer-mediator-modeller end of the scale. The division between the initiator vs follower roles is less clear-cut.

• Schwartz, Herman Mark & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). Thinking about Thinking about Comparative Political Economy: From Macro to Micro and Back. Politics & Society. ISSN 0032-3292. 47(1), p. 23–54. doi: 10.1177/0032329218796197. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Finansialiseringens tidsalder. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. Full text in Research Archive
• Høyer, Hans Christian; Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Kasa, Sjur (2016). Introduksjon og innledning. In Høyer, Hans Christian; Kasa, Sjur & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (Ed.), Tillit, styring, kontroll. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215024561. p. 11–26. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Makt i matkjeden. In Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Almås, Reidar & Vik, Jostein (Ed.), Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245017526. p. 23–50. Full text in Research Archive

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• Claes, Dag Harald; Hveem, Helge & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Internasjonal politisk økonomi. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215069364. 342 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Porte, C de la; Eydal, GB; Kauko, Jaakko; Nohrstedt, D; t'Hart, P & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192856296. 544 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  23 stories of iconic public policies that 'worked', that delivered public value, received broad political and public support, and have remained viable for decades Each case study is analysed using a systematic framework for success assessment that builds on the pioneering work of Allan McConnell, and which has now been applied to nearly 100 case studies spread across four open access volumes Offers in depth descriptions of the origins, design, and evolution of the policies under study, bringing to life the actors, ideas, interests, and interactions that gave birth to them and steered their implementation An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence

• Claes, Dag Harald; Hveem, Helge & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2017). Internasjonal Politisk Økonomi. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215028064. 273 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2017). Ustabilitetens politiske økonomi: om fremveksten av finansialisert kapitalisme. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202434939. 274 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Ustabilitetens politiske økonomi handler om hvordan vi havnet i en situasjon der finanskriser og bekymring for finansiell ustabilitet er blitt en del av hverdagen. Den setter også et navn på dagens kapitalisme, den er finansialisert, en tilstand preget av maktforhold, institusjoner, fordelingsmønstre og forretningsmodeller som avviker sterkt fra den mer produksjonsorienterte og langsiktige kapitalismen som dominerte i perioden etter 2. verdenskrig og fram til 1980-tallet. Boka tar for seg to historiske perioder med monetært samarbeid, gullstandarden og Bretton Woods, og sammenligner disse med dagens regime. Finanskrisen og eurokrisen undersøkes, vi ser på hvorfor disse enorme krisene oppstod, hvordan man tolket dem, og hvordan de ble forsøkt løst. Hvilke politiske, økonomiske og idémessige endringer muliggjorde fremveksten av en enorm, politisk mektig og ustabil finanssektor? Hvordan havnet vi i 2007 i en situasjon hvor banker var både «too big to fail» og «too big to jail» og måtte reddes av skattebetalerne? Hvorfor ble eurokrisen dypere og mer langvarig enn finanskrisen i USA? Er finanssektoren bedre regulert og mer stabil ti år etter krisen? Boka er aktuell for bachelor- og masterstudenter i samfunnsfag og historie og for andre med interesse for finans og internasjonal politisk økonomi.

• Høyer, Hans Christian; Kasa, Sjur & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Tillit, styring, kontroll. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215024561. 187 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Professor om prishoppet: - Ingen av prisene er ærlige. [Journal]. VG. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). - Dette er en krigserklæring. [Internet]. TV 2. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). NHO-sjefen forsvarer dagligvarebutikkene: – Det er bra å tjene penger. [Internet]. ABC Nyheter. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). – De vil forsøke å dytte regningen over på noen andre. [Internet]. TV 2. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). De Rikes Fortellinger. 15.08.2023. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Skade for å dele. 13.04.2023. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Hodejegerbløffen. 24.10.23. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). For dum til å dele? 28.11.2023. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Nye Begreper. 11.07.2023. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Ny Kiwi-strategi skaper bekymring. [Internet]. Nettavisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Prisras fra påsken i fjor: – Da tar det av. [Journal]. Hamar Arbeiderblad. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Påskekosen: Seks ganger prisen til Kiwi. [Internet]. Nettavisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Kampene bak konsensusmaskinen. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Prisras fra påsken i fjor: – Tommel opp. [Internet]. Nettavisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2023). Ekspert slakter butikkenes påsketilbud. [Internet]. TV 2. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Økonomiske spådommer for et Europa i krig. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Fusjonen på Innlandet: Prosesser, prioriteringer og ressurskamp. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). China and the West: where do we go from here? Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Amerikansk økonomi og Trumps USA under Biden. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Beredskapsdilemmaet og opprustningens pris – hva må vike? Ledet debatt under Kåkånomics 26.10.2022. Full text in Research Archive
• Fossum, John Erik; Sjursen, Helene & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2022). Scenarios for EU's development in light of the war in Ukraine. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  EU3D coordinator and professor John Erik Fossum at ARENA Centre for European Studies at University of Oslo organised a panel discussion with colleague at ARENA, research professor Helene Sjursen, professor Bent Sofus Tranøy at Høyskolen Kristiania and Heidi Nordby Lunde, representative in the Norwegian Parliament and leader of Europabevegelsen. Journalist Sten Inge Jørgensen led the debate. The panellists discussed how the development of the EU is affected by the war in Ukraine and what it means for unity and agreement in the EU and Europe. They discussed the problems associated with EU fragmentation and decline in law-based international collaboration; democratic pitfalls of more European integration, if democratic institutions are not involved; and the implications of EU acquiring decision-making powers within policy areas that are traditionally seen as belonging to the state. The event was organised on 25 October 2022 by the University of Oslo as part of the EU3D future of Europe Debate series.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). Markedets Makt over Sinnene 15 år etter. Full text in Research Archive
• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). Complex interdependence under financialization - US/EU monetary relations. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2021). Ola Innset: Markedsvendingen: Nyliberalismens historie i Norge. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS). ISSN 0040-716X. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2021-03-07. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2020). EU blir aldri det samme. Intervju om EUs Korona-krisepakke med journalist Martin Uleberg. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Hjertaker, Ingrid & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2019). EU-US Monetary and Financial Relations: Complex Interdependence under Financialization. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Has the Euro succeeded in making Europe less exposed to financial instability originating in the US and less dependent on the dollar? Are Transatlantic monetary and financial relations as fractured as seems to be the case in issue areas like trade and security? In this paper we will argue that the best answer to both questions is no: The birth of the Euro and the onset of financialization are two major structural changes since the end of the Bretton Woods phase of American hegemony, that have off-set each other. The EMU - with all its inherent weaknesses not-with-standing - have in some respects increased the independence the Euro, while financialization have created new dependencies between European banks and US financial markets. The subprime crisis revealed that the two continents are deeply enmeshed in a relationship of financial interdependence, and crucially, when push came to shove in 2008, it became clear that in matters of financial stability the US was still the hegemon and, in this issue area, functionally benevolent.

• Høyer, Hans Christian; Madsbu, Jens Petter & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). Kulturkollisjon! Evidens-doktrinen versus organisasjons-doktrinen i norsk politi. Full text in Research Archive
• Høyer, Hans Christian; Madsbu, Jens Petter & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). 22. juli-rapportens uklarheter – betingelse for dens umiddelbare suksess? Paper til NEON Konferansen 2018 Track 17: Politi og organisasjonsforandring Hans Christian Høyer, Bent Sofus tranøy, Jens Petter Madsbu HHS HINN. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). Rentehopp etter børsras. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Hjertaker, Ingrid (2017). Ingen grunn til optimisme. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Schwartz, Herman Mark (2017). Illusions of Convergence: The Persistent Simplification of a Wicked Crisis. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  What variables should we be looking at when measuring economic convergence, how is this choice related to economic theory and what are the consequences of getting it wrong? EMU was expected to spur economic growth and reverse ‘eurosclerosis’ through three major convergences in pricing, production, and financing. But even when political authorities in Europe confronted reasonably clear evidence that what they had perceived as stability-inducing convergence was actually crisis-inducing divergence, those authorities continued to doggedly pursue solutions to the Eurozone crisis based on austerity and ‘one size fits all’ policies. In this chapter, we try to explain why this is so, highlighting how an increasingly segmented episto-cracy had an understanding of convergence that first allowed it to ignore the massive build-up of debt that made the Euro-crisis possible and then produced rigidity instead of resilience. This rigidity stemmed from cognitive biases that were structurally encoded into institutions of economic surveillance and governance that were unconstrained by other institutions with a broader perspective.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2017). Finansialiseringens tidsalder. Full text in Research Archive
• Madsbu, Jens Petter; Høyer, Hans Christian & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2017). Det institusjonelle som restkategori: Arven etter Gjørv. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Teater og klassekamp. [Journal]. Romsdals Budstikke. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Flukten fra virkeligheten. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Hysj, vi regner. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Kniver om elever. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Professor: Kulturproblem i norsk næringsliv. [Journal]. NTBtekst (+ flere andre aviser). Full text in Research Archive
• Karp, Tom & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2016). Reformer som ledelsesideologi. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Salongen [radioutsendelse]. [Radio]. P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Forbrukere er for travle, sløve og sultne. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Bunnpris til Norgesgruppen: Maktkonsentrasjonen øker innen dagligvare. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Oljeprisfallet gjør at vi må tenke på nytt. [Journal]. Nationen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). På tomgang. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Valgfrihet hele uka. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Torp, Ole (2015). Aktuelt. Statsbudsjettet. Direkte fra studio om politikk, kultur og samfunnsliv. [TV]. NRK2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Matlary, Clemet, Aarebrot og Tranøy om statsbudsjettet.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Torp, Ole (2015). Aktuelt. Om den politiske situasjonen foran partienes landsmøter. Direkte fra studio om politikk, kultur og samfunnsliv. [TV]. NRK2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Deltakere: Matlary, Clemet, Tranøy og AArebrot

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). På tomgang. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). I en egen verden. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Samarbeidets pris. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Statlig ryddemani. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Vulgært. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2015). Uten selvkontroll. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Streeck i regningen. p. 3–3. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Wolfgang Streeck siteres på at vi har tre trener som forsterker hverandre. Vi står ikke overfor en forbigående krise, mener Streeck, men en selvforsterkende elendighet som våre politiske eliter mangler både perspektiv på, og vilje til å ta tak i. Perspektivet mangler fordi politikkens forståelse av krise kun er orientert mot statens finanser. Interessen er fraværende fordi politikk i økende grad kun er en aspirantperiode før man går over til bedre betalte jobber i finans- og lobbynæringene. Sjekk selv hvor det ble av mannskapet da den rødgrønne skuta gikk i opplag i fjor høst. artikkelen utdyper dette.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Doomsday Gap. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Våpenkappløpet i matkjedene. [Journal]. Dagsavisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Tre dystre trender har preget. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Omsorg for bygg? Det følger en nisse med på lasset når eiendom blir skilt ut som egen virksomhet. p. 3–3. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Omsorgsbygg. Entra. Stat og kommuner som eiere kontra leiere.

• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Vrien venstreside - Er høyrefolk greiere med hverandre? Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Blir på barnerommet. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Nymerkantilismen. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Det lykkelige valg. p. 3–3. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Har vi råd til en velferdsstat? Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). De nye gigantene. Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Krisen i Europa, hvordan plassere ansvar? Full text in Research Archive
• Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2014). Prisstrategene. Full text in Research Archive
• Høyer, Hans Christian; Madsbu, Jens Petter & Tranøy, Bent Sofus (2018). Kultur som problem og reformobjekt i norsk polit. Innganger til forståelse av kultur i politiet. Høgskolen i Innlandet. ISSN 9788283800654. Full text in Research Archive

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