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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 →

The much-discussed theories of French economist Thomas Piketty are not based on sound principles, as can be seen on a close scrutiny. This was what Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Academic Director, argued at the conference of European Students for … Continue reading →

Grazing rights in the Icelandic mountain pastures, individual transferable quotas in the Icelandic fishing grounds and the indexed Icelandic krona are three examples of institutions or solutions developed spontaneously by the market rather than imposed by government. This was claimed … Continue reading →

The emerging Asia of the last thirty years was the main topic discussed at the 2014 general meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society in Hong Kong 31 August to 5 September. Hundreds of millions of Asian people have migrated from … Continue reading →

In 2009 the European Parliament decided to make 23 August a special memorial day for victims of totalitarianism, nazism and communism. This day was chosen because on that very day in 1939 Hitler and Stalin had made the non-aggression pact … Continue reading →

RNH’s Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave four papers at Nordic conferences in August 2014. At the annual meeting of NOPSA, the Nordic Political Science Assocation, in Gothenburg in Sweden 12–15 August he discussed three topics. One of them … Continue reading →