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Wealth Creation More Important than Its Distribution

In April 2016, RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave three papers at regional conferences of the Brazilian Students for Liberty, Estudantes pela liberdade: 16 April in Rio de Janeiro, 23 April in Belo Horizonte and 30 April in … Continue reading

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Economic Freedom in Iceland, 930–2016

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave a lecture at a conference on economic freedom in Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, 8–9 April 2016, on economic freedom in Iceland 930–2016. He discussed the institutions of the Icelandic Commonwealth, including … Continue reading

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Iceland and the Anglo-Saxon Powers

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave a lecture at the Icelandic-American Chamber of Commerce in New York 7 April 2016, on Iceland and the Anglo-Saxon Powers. Professor Gissurarson described the relationship between Iceland and Great Britain from 1412 … Continue reading

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When Business Transactions are Immoral

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, attended the annual meeting of APEE, Association of Private Enterprise Education, in Las Vegas 3–6 April 2016, where he chaired one session and gave a lecture in another, about business ethics. Professor Gissurarson discussed … Continue reading

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Nordic Economies in Europe and North America: A Comparison

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave three lectures in the United States in the spring of 2016, comparing the Nordic economies in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland on the one hand and the Nordic economies in Minnesota, Manitoba … Continue reading

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Iceland: North Atlantic Option Better

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave a lecture 19 March 2016 at a conference at Akureyri University on international affairs. According to him, foreign powers only took interest in Iceland for a brief period of history, while it … Continue reading

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