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Mont Pelerin Society Meets in Guatemala

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, attended the special meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Guatemala City on 14–18 November 2021. The theme of the meeting was ‘Rising from the Crisis: Advancing the Future of the Free Society’. … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Recalling the Collapse of the Soviet Union

The Platform of European Memory and Conscience held its annual Council of Members on 11–13 November 2021 in Prague, alongside an international conference on the year 1991 in retrospect. The keynote paper at the conference was delivered by Professor Hannes … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Thatcher as a Conservative

In a paper which Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson read to a meeting of the Danube Institute in Budapest 10 November 2021, he argued that Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Conservative Party in 1975–1990 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom … Continue reading

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Gissurarson Presents his Book in Budapest

RNH Academic Director Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson presented his recent book in two volumes, Twenty-Four Conservative-Liberal Thinkers, on 8 November 2021 in Budapest, at a seminar organised by the Danube Institute, led by John O’Sullivan. In his introductory talk, Gissurarson … Continue reading

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Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award to Veselin Vucotić

At the Austrian Economics Conference in Vienna 4–5 November 2021 it was announced that this year the Hayek Institute in Vienna, led by Dr. Barbara Kolm, was giving the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Veselin Vukotić, Rector of the … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Menger’s Political Significance

RNH Academic Director Hannes H. Gissurarson gave a keynote paper at the Austrian Economics Conference in Vienna 4–5 November 2021 on ‘Menger’s Political Significance’. He pointed out that Carl Menger’s contribution to economic analysis was in many ways as seminal … Continue reading

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