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Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was a guest in Gisli Freyr Valdorsson’s podcast, Thjodmal, on 4 March 2024. He said that Western universities had abandoned their traditional and proper purpose which was to … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, first met Antony Fisher (later Sir Antony) in the autumn of 1980 when he invited Gissurarson and other participants at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Stanford to … Continue reading →

The Mont Pelerin Society was founded in April 1947 at a meeting in Switzerland of some classical liberal scholars, including the economists Ludwig von Mises, Frank A. Knight, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Milton Friedman, George J. Stigler and Maurice Allais, … Continue reading →

Professor Gary Libecap, an internationally acknowledged authority on resource economics, gave a lecture in the Festivities Hall of the University of Iceland on 21 October 2023 about resource utilisation and private property rights. He stated the general arguments for property … Continue reading →

The Brussels think tank New Direction held a large conference in Madrid on 20–22 September 2023 where right-wing intellectuals and activists met to discuss issues, as well as to attend the annual Margaret Thatcher Dinner. The speaker this year was … Continue reading →

Jamie Borwick, the fifth Baron Borwick, invited Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, to a reception he held on 28 June 2023 in the Cholmondeley Room at Westminster Palace, the British House of Parliament, … Continue reading →