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Gissurarson: Much to Learn from Three Modern Masters

At the 4th annual European Students for Liberty conference in Berlin, 10–12 April 2015, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Academic Director was one of the speakers. The title of his lecture was “Three Modern Masters: Hayek, Popper and Friedman. Personal … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Iceland Treated Best by Swedes

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Director of Academic Research, gave a paper at a morning seminar conducted by the Ratio think tank in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday 9 April 2015. The paper was about Swedish-Icelandic relations through the centuries. Professor Gissurarson … Continue reading

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MPS Regional Meeting, Lima, March 2015

RNH was represented at the Mont Pelerin Society regional meeting in Lima, Peru, 22–25 March 2015 by Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, a MPS member since 1984. Professor Gissurarson organised, with Professor Harold Demsetz, a MPS regional meeting in Iceland in … Continue reading

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Loan from Russia, reckless businessmen, financial centres, etc.

Gudni Th. Johannesson, Associate Professor of history at the University of Iceland, and Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor of Politics at the UI, both agreed that new evidence was to be found on the 2008 Icelandic bank collapse, at a meeting … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: the UK left Iceland Out in the Cold

The Icelandic 2008 bank collapse was self-inflicted in the sense that a precarious situation had been created by the very rapid growth of the three main Icelandic banks. But glass does not break because it is breakable, and a precarious … Continue reading

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Smith: Money Improves and Extends Human Life

Professor Tara Smith from the University of Texas in Austin gave a lecture at the University of Iceland, sponsored by RNH, Monday 24 November 2014, on the moral message in the works of Russian-American novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. The … Continue reading

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