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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, […]
Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Presentation the 30th Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar in Rome 25-26 June 2018.
Chain of Legitimacy: Constitution Making in Iceland
In Jon Elster, Roberto Gargarella, Vatsal Naresh og Bjørn Erik Rasch (eds.), Constituent Assemblies. Abstract To understand Iceland´s political situation, […]
From Double Diversification to Efficiency and Growth
Public lecture at the 19th International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 10-13 April 2018. See related paper.
Political Economy, Mr. Churchill, and Oil
Presentation at the 19th International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 10-13 April 2018. Published in Mineral […]
Dutch Disease
In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 3rd ed., 2018. Abstract This article outlines the ‘Dutch disease’, the fear of de-industrialization […]
Political economy, Mr. Churchill, and natural resources
The article recalls Winston Churchill’s advocacy of public ownership of natural resources in Africa in the early 1900s. Following a […]
Demographic change and inequality trends in the Nordic countries: Comment
Comment on a paper by Jon Kristian Pareliussen and Per Olof Robling