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 […]
Why Europe Works Less and Grows Taller
Inaugural research seminar at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, jointly organized by the Joint Vienna Institute, in […]
A golden rule of depreciation
We derive a Golden Rule for the obsolescence of physical capital. Optimal durability is shown to vary inversely with population […]
Recent Development Experiences from China, India, Malaysia, and South Korea – Some Lessons for Capacity Building in Africa
Keynote Lecture at The Second Pan African Capacity Building Forum, organized by the The African Capacity Building Foundation and held […]
IMF Institute Lectures
Lectures held in Pretoria, South Africa, June 2007. Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth Lecture 2: Alternative Views of the IMF […]
Economic Governance and Sustained Growth
Lecture at 60th Anniversary Conference commemorating of the Harvard Commencement Address of the Secretary of State, George C. Marshall, on June 4, […]
The international economics of natural resources and growth
This article is in three parts. First, it briefly describes the contribution of natural resources to economic growth around the […]
Economic Governance and Sustained Growth
Lecture at The JVI Policy Research Conference 2007 on Economic Governance and Sustained Growth in the Balkans jointly organized by the DG […]