Development and growth in mineral-rich countries
Í Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity: Economic and Global Policy Issues, ritstj. Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul J.J. Welfens og ZhongXiang Zhang.
Oil management: Norway’s example
Norwegian children are taught at school that Norway was Europe‘s most impoverished country in 1905, when the Norwegians unilaterally dissolved […]
Governance and growth: Why does Georgia lag behind Estonia?
The development gap between former Soviet states is striking – top performers like Estonia have joined the European Union while […]
Iceland and its financial predicament: History and context
Understanding Iceland and its current financial predicament requires some history and context. Here Iceland’s best known professor of economics explains […]
Norway’s Wealth: Not Just Oil
Norwegians enjoy a very high standard of living. Is it due to their oil? This column describes the country’s impressive […]
Determinants of economic growth: A comparative analysis of Estonia and Georgia
Skrifað ásamt Eduard Hochreiter, í Economic Transformation of Central and Eastern European Countries, Conference Proceedings. Abstract We study and […]
Skating on thin ice?
Recent events have commentators discussing whether Iceland is in danger of an economic meltdown. This column examines the situation in […]
When Iceland was Ghana
Believe it or not: in 1901, Iceland’s per capita national economic output was about the same as that of today’s […]
Dwindling fish: What’s the catch?
The Common Fisheries Policy, a product of special interests rather than economic rationale, has driven European fish stocks to dangerously […]
Dutch disease
Í Steven N. Durlauf og Lawrence E. Blume (ritstj.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Springer Verlag, Berlín, 2008 Abstract […]