Moene graduated as
cand.oecon. from the
University of Oslo in 1977, and as
dr. philos. in 1984. He was appointed professor at the
University of Oslo from 1987. His research interests include companies owned by and ruled by workers, the
Nordic model and the
welfare state, and
development economics. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers. His books include
Likhet under Press: utfordringer for den skandinaviske fordelingsmodellen from 2003 (co-writer),
Marked uten kapitalisme: økonomisk demokrati med selveide bedrifter from 1990 (co-writer), and
Alternatives to Capitalism from 1989 (co-editor). He takes part in public debate on economic issues, and is a regular columnist for the newspaper
Dagens Næringsliv. In 2011, he was awarded the
Research Council of Norway's Award for Excellence in Communication of Science. In 2017, he gave a TEDx talk on Universal basic share(UBS), which is variation on
Universal basic income (UBI). He is a fellow of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2012, he was elected a member of the
Academia Europaea. He is director of the GiWES: Globalisation, Institutions and the Welfare State Project which is part of the NORFACE
Welfare State Futures Programme network. ==Personal life==