Author Archives: HHG

Special taxes on the rich are counterproductive, according to Dr. Daniel Mitchell, senior tax analyst at Cato Institute in Washington DC. He argued for this at a well-attended seminar organised by the Icelandic Taxpayers’ Association and RNH in Reykjavik 4 … Continue reading →

Dr. Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute in California, gave a paper on self-love and capitalism in Reykjavik 1 November 2013, on the occasion of the publication of the Icelandic edition of We the Living, the most autobiographical … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →