Category Archives: News

Dr. Birgir Thor Runolfsson, the Chair of the Economics Faculty at the University, was elected member of the Mont Pelerin Society at its biannual general meeting in New Delhi 21–26 September. The other two attendants from Iceland were Ragnar Arnason, … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was a guest in Frosti Logason’s podcast on 19 September 2024. He said that recent elections in European countries suggested that a lot of voters who had voted … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was invited to give a talk at a meeting of the Brussels think tank New Direction in Dublin on 17 September 2024. He used the … Continue reading →

The summer of 2022 saw the publication of the book Superabundance; the Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Dr. Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute in Washington DC and Professor Gale Pooley. They … Continue reading →

Probably the covid virus which caused the 2020–2022 worldwide pandemic leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan in China, although it is well nigh impossible to prove this, science writer Dr. Matt Ridley said at a meeting at the University … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was a guest at Gisli Freyr Valdorsson’s podcast on 2 July 2024, discussing many current issues. He found it strange that the welfare state was growing at the … Continue reading →