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Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Academic director, gave a lecture on the Soviet influence of the Icelandic communist movement at a University of Tartu seminar  28 April 2015. The seminar was organised by the Department of Politics, and before it, … Continue reading →

Six examples of unnecessary losses incurred by the fallen Icelandic banks were analysed in detail by Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, in a lecture at the spring conference of the Institute of Business Studies at the University of Iceland 21 April … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →