Monthly Archives: November 2013

Gisli Hauksson, chairman of the RNH board, and Skafti Hardarson, chairman of the Icelandic Taxpayers’ Association, attended the annual New York Freedom Dinner of the Atlas Foundation 14 November 2013. Atlas Foundation is an international network of research institutes exploring … Continue reading →

The Lord Lamont of Lerwick, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990–3, said in Budapest at a conference on the 2008 international financial crisis 15 November 2013 that invoking the anti-terrorism law against Iceland, as the British Labour government then … Continue reading →

In the Hague 12 November 2013, the application of RNH, the Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth, to join the Platform of European Memory and Conscience was accepted. Formed in 2011 in response to the resolutions by the … Continue reading →

At a seminar in the Faculty of Business Administration 5 November 2013, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson criticized the accounts on the Icelandic economy given by authors such as Roger Boyes, Robert Wade and Sigurbjorg Sigurgeirsdottir. Those people claimed that the … Continue reading →

Special taxes on the rich are counterproductive, according to Dr. Daniel Mitchell, senior tax analyst at Cato Institute in Washington DC. He argued for this at a well-attended seminar organised by the Icelandic Taxpayers’ Association and RNH in Reykjavik 4 … Continue reading →

Dr. Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute in California, gave a paper on self-love and capitalism in Reykjavik 1 November 2013, on the occasion of the publication of the Icelandic edition of We the Living, the most autobiographical … Continue reading →