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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 →

Professor Gary Libecap, an internationally acknowledged authority on resource economics, gave a lecture in the Festivities Hall of the University of Iceland on 21 October 2023 about resource utilisation and private property rights. He stated the general arguments for property … Continue reading →

The Brussels think tank New Direction held a large conference in Madrid on 20–22 September 2023 where right-wing intellectuals and activists met to discuss issues, as well as to attend the annual Margaret Thatcher Dinner. The speaker this year was … Continue reading →

Jamie Borwick, the fifth Baron Borwick, invited Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, to a reception he held on 28 June 2023 in the Cholmondeley Room at Westminster Palace, the British House of Parliament, … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was one of the lecturers in a summer school for young conservatives in Sundbyholm Castle near Eskilstuna in Sweden on 18 June 2023. He posed two questions. The … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director, Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, went to York in June 2023, following in the footsteps of Icelandic warrior-poet Egil Skallagrimsson (c. 904–995). Gissurarson regards a famous poem by Egil, Head’s … Continue reading →