Author Archives: HHG

Great Turnout at Lively ESFL Reykjavik Conference

About 85 people attended the conference of the European Students for Liberty, ESFL, in Reykjavik Saturday 15 November 2014, including about 15 students from abroad. The Conference took place at the University Plaza on the University of Iceland premises. Lukas … Continue reading

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European Students for Liberty: Reykjavik 15 November

European Students for Liberty, ESFL, hold a regional meeting in Reykjavik Saturday 15 November 2014. The venue is the University of Iceland Centre, at meeting room HT-105. The programme is as follows: 11.30 Opening 11.45 Economics Professor Birgir Thor Runolfsson … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Anti-Communist Books Published Online

Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Academic Director, described the joint project by RNH and AECR, “Europe of the Victims”, at the annual meeting of the European Platform of Memory and Conscience—of which RNH is a member institute—in Brussels 4–5 November … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: What Explains Darling’s Hostility?

The Icelandic Parliament’s Special Investigation Commission, SIC, on the 2008 bank collapse correctly identified two factors contributing to the collapse: the rapid expansion of the banks on the one hand and a hidden, or invisible, risk factor embedded in the … Continue reading

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Ridley: The World is Improving!

The world is rapidly improving, whether we look at living standards, health, literacy or the reduction of many social evils, such as violent crimes, warfare and contagious diseases. We have also seen a greening of the earth, with ever less … Continue reading

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Resource Rent Tax and Special Wealth Tax Unreasonable

A resource rent tax in the fisheries is not the best means to achieve the efficient utilisation of the fish stocks, because it will probably always be unacceptable to the fishing sector itself. A system of individual transferable quotas, ITQs, … Continue reading

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