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 […]
The Dutch Disease in Reverse: Iceland’s Natural Experiment
With Gylfi Zoega, in Luigi Paganetto (ritstj.), Getting Globalization Right: Sustainability and Inclusive Growth in the post Brexit Age, Springer […]
The Dutch Disease in Reverse: Iceland’s Natural Experiment
Ásamt Gylfa Zoega, í Luigi Paganetto (ritstj.), Getting Globalization Right: Sustainability and Inclusive Growth in the post Brexit Age.
Introduction
With David Carrillo and Jón Ólafsson, The Icelandic Federalist Papers, Berkeley Public Policy Press, Berkeley, California, 2018.
Life-and-death inequality
Although people are living longer almost everywhere, life-expectancy figures in the US tell a more complicated story. Rich Americans can […]
Negative interest
It was at Princeton that I first met Hans Tson Söderström, in 1975. His host there was Professor William Branson, […]
From double diversification to efficiency and growth
The paper discusses economic and political diversification as two sides of the same coin, presenting them as parallel potential determinants […]