Author Archives: HHG

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, gave a talk about the proper role of government at a meeting held by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade in Serbia on 22 April … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus in Politics at the University of Iceland, gave a keynote lecture at the Cultural Weekend of ECR Party, European Conservatives and Reformists Party, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 31 March 2024. He described the relevance today … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Icceland, gave a talk in Amsterdam on 12 March 2024 at a conference held by the Austrian Economics Centre and the Nederlands Instituut vor Praxeologie, about the EU in … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was a guest in Gisli Freyr Valdorsson’s podcast, Thjodmal, on 4 March 2024. He said that Western universities had abandoned their traditional and proper purpose which was to … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, first met Antony Fisher (later Sir Antony) in the autumn of 1980 when he invited Gissurarson and other participants at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Stanford to … Continue reading →

The Mont Pelerin Society was founded in April 1947 at a meeting in Switzerland of some classical liberal scholars, including the economists Ludwig von Mises, Frank A. Knight, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Milton Friedman, George J. Stigler and Maurice Allais, … Continue reading →