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, […]
Skáldaskil/Poets Apart
An epic trilogy in six acts, which deals with the tumultuous friendship between two Icelandic poets, Einar Benediktsson og Thorsteinn […]
Tímamót/Watershed
This roman à clef by Thorsteinn Gíslason, poet and editor (1867-1938), describes Iceland around 1900, when the country began its economic and […]