Digital Tools and the Derailment of Iceland´s New Constitution
With Anne Meuwese, in Corien Prins, Peter Lindseth, Monica Guisse and Colette Cuijpers (eds.), Digital Democracy in a Globalized World, […]
Efficiency, Fairness, and Social Cohesion in Europe and the United States: Incomes, Hours of Work, and Equality with an Afterthought on Iceland
In Luigi Paganetto (ed.), Sustainable Growth in the EU: Challenges and Solutions, under a shorter title (“Incomes, Hours of Work, […]
Iceland´s new constitution is not solely a local concern
This paper analyzes the constitutional impasse in Iceland where, after the financial collapse of 2008, Parliament convened a National Assembly […]
The New Constitution is Not an Exclusively Icelandic Concern
Lecture at an international conference on the revision of the Icelandic constitution held at the University of Akureyri and organized […]
Iceland and Ireland, eight years on
Iceland’s financial system, you may not remember, blew apart in spectacular fashion, with the country’s banks left owing their creditors […]
Economic performance in two dimensions: How Europe beats the US
One-dimensional indicators such as GNI per capita are known to be flawed measures of wellbeing. The Human Development Index (HDI) […]
The Anatomy of Constitution Making: From Denmark in 1848 to Iceland in 2017
Presentation at a conference on Constitution Making in Democratic Constitutional Orders at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching of Economics) in […]
Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth: Options for Uganda
With Jean-Pascal Nguessa Nganou, inS. Mahroum og Y. Al-Saleh (eds.), Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies.
Iceland’s citizen constitution: The window remains wide open
Historical evidence suggests that, with few exceptions, it takes a crisis to write or revise a country’s constitution. Iceland fits […]
Constitution on Ice
In Valur Ingimundarson, Philipe Urfalino, and Irma Erlingsdóttir (eds.), Iceland’s Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction, Routledge, London, England.