Different Choices, Divergent Paths: Poland and Ukraine
Presentation of a joint paper with Eduard Hochreiter and Tadeusz Kowalski prepared for Fault lines after Covid: Reykjavik roundtable on […]
Remembering Assar Lindbeck
In memory of Assar Lindbeck, the Swedish economist.
Constitutions, Fish, Growth, Diversification, and More
Lecture at Fróðskaparsetur Føroya. Abstract This will be one of those talks where almost everything discussed is in the title. […]
How Equality Matters for Life Satisfaction
With Sandeep Kapur and Gylfi Zoega, under submission. Abstract We consider two possible channels of the possible impact of income […]
To Grow or Not to Grow: Belarus and Lithuania
With Eduard Hochreiter. In Comparative Economic Studies 2022. Abstract We compare the economic growth performance of Belarus and Lithuania since […]
To Grow or Not to Grow: Belarus vs. Lithuania
Presentation at the 92nd International Atlantic Economic North American Conference online 7-10 October 2021 and again at the The Vienna […]
Awakening from the Chinese Dream
With Arne Jon Isachsen. In Challenge 2021. Abstract While Mao saw China throw off the yoke of foreign powers, and […]
Portraits
Portraits of growth theorists Adam Smith Joseph Schumpeter Thomas Malthus John Maynard Keynes David Ricardo Roy Harrod John Stuart Mill […]
Iceland´s New Constitution is Not Solely a Local Concern
Presentation at a conference on the revision of the Icelandic constitution on the occasion of the publication of Icelandic Constitutional […]
Fimm árstíðir/Five Seasons
Five songs by Thorvaldur Gylfason set to poems by Snorri Hjartarson (1906-1986). The poems are Autumn Is Here, Ice Breaks, […]