From equality, democracy, and public health to economic prosperity
Abstract This article takes you on a quick tour of international cross-sectional data on equality, democracy, public health, and economic […]
Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
In Luigi Paganetto (ed.), Yearning for Inclusive Growth and Development, Good Jobs and Sustainability, Springer 2019. Abstract This paper aims […]
Supply-side climate policy in Norway: Comment
Comment on a paper by Katinka Holtsmark
Iceland´s ongoing constitutional fight
Relative to its rapid progress during 1990–2000, democracy has been in decline around the globe since 2000, even within the EU. Freedom House has […]
Why inequality matters
There was a time, not long ago, when most economists did not consider inequality in the distribution of income and […]
Ten Years After: Iceland´s Unfinished Business
Chapter in Robert Z. Aliber og Gylfi Zoega (eds.), The 2008 Global Financial Crisis in Retrospect, Palgrave, 2019. Abstract This study […]
Knowledge@Wharton
From the University of Philadelphia, with Dan Loney and Philip Nichols, on Iceland and the 2008 crash.
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis in Retrospect
Conference presentation at the University of Iceland 30-31 August 2018, published in Robert Z. Aliber and Gylfi Zoega (eds.), The […]
Political Economy, Mr. Churchill, and Natural Resources
Presentation at the 25th IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 July 2018. Published in Mineral Economics, […]