Monthly Archives: November 2023

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 →