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
Chapter in Robert Z. Aliber og Gylfi Zoega (eds.), The 2008 Global Financial Crisis in Retrospect, Palgrave, 2019. Abstract This study […]
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 […]
Demographic change and inequality trends in the Nordic countries: Comment
Comment on a paper by Jon Kristian Pareliussen and Per Olof Robling
Introduction
Introduction í The New Icelandic Constitution: How Did It Come About? Where Is It?
Foreword
With Emil Ems, in Emil Ems and Thorvaldur Gylfason (eds.), Prosperity through Trade and Structural Reform, Festschrift in honour of […]