Aksel Braanen Sterri is a PhD-student in philosophy at the University of Oslo and a member of the research project "What should not be bought and sold?". His main research topics are commodification ethics/the moral limits of markets. Aksel has his background in Political Science (MA), and has worked as an op ed-columnist at the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, and as an editor at the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, before he started his PhD.
His topics of interests are, among other things, drug policy, selective abortion, eugenics, effective altruism, euthanasia, social democracy, happiness and the welfare state (which was the topic of his MA thesis).
