From equality, democracy, and public health to economic prosperity
Abstract This article takes you on a quick tour of international cross-sectional data on equality, democracy, public health, and economic […]
Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
In Luigi Paganetto (ed.), Yearning for Inclusive Growth and Development, Good Jobs and Sustainability, Springer 2019. Abstract This paper aims […]
Supply-side climate policy in Norway: Comment
Comment on a paper by Katinka Holtsmark
Iceland´s ongoing constitutional fight
Relative to its rapid progress during 1990–2000, democracy has been in decline around the globe since 2000, even within the EU. Freedom House has […]
Why inequality matters
There was a time, not long ago, when most economists did not consider inequality in the distribution of income and […]
Ten Years After: Iceland´s Unfinished Business
Kafli í Robert Z. Aliber og Gylfi Zoega (ritstj.), The 2008 Global Financial Crisis in Retrospect, Palgrave, 2019. Abstract This study discusses […]
Knowledge@Wharton
From the University of Philadelphia, with Dan Loney and Philip Nichols, on Iceland and the 2008 crash.
Chain of Legitimacy: Constitution Making in Iceland
In Jon Elster, Roberto Gargarella, Vatsal Naresh og Bjørn Erik Rasch (eds.), Constituent Assemblies. Abstract To understand Iceland´s political situation, […]
Dutch Disease
In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 3rd ed., 2018. Abstract This article outlines the ‘Dutch disease’, the fear of de-industrialization […]
Political economy, Mr. Churchill, and natural resources
The article recalls Winston Churchill’s advocacy of public ownership of natural resources in Africa in the early 1900s. Following a […]