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RNH has received the Kjartan Gunnarsson Freedom Prize for 2014, awarded by the Board of the Young Independents, SUS. The Prize is given annually to one institution and to one individual for their services to individual freedom. RNH received the … Continue reading →

Dan Grossman, chairman of the board of Atlas Network and member of the board of Students for Liberty, briefly visited Iceland on 11–12 May 2014. He had a luncheon meeting with Gisli Hauksson, chairman of RNH’s board, and a few … Continue reading →

Some left-wing commentators assert that the 2008 Icelandic bank collapse was caused by a failed attempt in the preceding years to implement “neoliberalism” in Iceland. Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson rejected that explanation in a lecture at the annual meeting of … Continue reading →

The European dream is turning into a nightmare because of the great mistake of adopting the same currency, the euro, in most of the European Union, even if many member states were totally unprepared for it. This was the conclusion … Continue reading →

The smallness of nations can be an opportunity as well as a constraint, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH’s Academic Director, said at a meeting of the political association Framsokn in the Faroe Islands, in Ostrom House in Torshavn, 22 March … Continue reading →

As the year 2008 went on, the Icelandic financial market became very vulnerable, heading towards a deep depression, similar to those which Icelanders frequently had to cope with in the 20th Century. However, three foreign factors suddenly brought all three … Continue reading →