Monthly Archives: November 2013

Gunnlaugsson: Special Charges in Fisheries Unconstitutional

Posted on 08.11.13

At a well-attended meeting of Logretta, the Association of Law Students at the University of Reykjavik, 29 October 2013, former Supreme Court Judge Jon Steinar Gunnlaugsson argued that special charges imposed on the Icelandic fisheries were unconstitutional and therefore illegal. … Continue reading →

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Gissurarson: Iceland Out in the Cold

Posted on 07.11.13

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson gave a lecture on the Icelandic bank collapse and the future of capitalism at a breakfast meeting of the Swedish think tank Timbro in Stockholm Tuesday 29 October 2013. Sharing the podium with him was Urban … Continue reading →

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Gissurarson: Fate of Baltic Nations Little-Known

Posted on 06.11.13

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson delivered a paper 25 October 2013 on “Different Nations — Shared Experiences: Iceland and the Baltic Countries” in a seminar on the international angle at the annual conference “The Mirror of the Nation” where teachers at … Continue reading →

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Gissurarson: Foreign Factors in Collapse Unexplained

Posted on 05.11.13

25 October 2013, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson read a paper at a seminar on the 2008 Icelandic bank collapse, a part of the annual conference “The Mirror of the Nation” where social scientists at the University of Iceland present their … Continue reading →

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Gissurarson: An Icelandic Octopus? Tuesday 5 November 12–13

Posted on 04.11.13

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson will give a lecture Tuesday 5 November 2013 in a seminar at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Iceland, 12–13, in room HT-101 in the University Plaza. The topic is: “Did an Octopus … Continue reading →

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Starving the Beast: Monday 4 November, 12–13

Posted on 01.11.13

The government is more and more becoming like a leviathan, a big beast, greedy for our money. Dr. Daniel Mitchell, the chief tax analyst at Cato Institute, will discuss how to starve the beast at a meeting jointly organised by … Continue reading →

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