In the report, the author first briefly discusses the ideas of Burke, Hume and Menger, moving on to Hayek and his ambivalent attitude towards conservatism and then turning to the ideas and arguments of two conservative British philosophers, ...

Collection of papers on the 1991–2007 tax reforms in Iceland and about various aspects of taxation and welfare.

In the first part the report discusses the common claim that our environment is being destroyed and recalls dire predictions about the future, trying to explain their emotional roots.

This illustrated report is about some of the most noteworthy books, travelogues, novels, memories, and historical treatises that came out in the great struggle between totalitarian communism and liberal democracy from the 1917 Bolshevik ...

There seem to be many logical and empirical flaws in Piketty’s case for global confiscatory taxes, and the novels from the 19th century he quotes, show, not the relentless accumulation of capital, but rather its precariousness.

This is not one Nordic model, but many.

Four papers on the Icelandic system of ITQs in the fisheries (Individual Transferable Quotas), in particular the nature of the problem of overfishing, moral and economic considerations on the initial allocation of quotas and lessons for ...

The proliferation of small states is partly because economic integration has made political disintegration possible.

A brief history of the left-wing socialist movement in Iceland which formed a faction in the Labour Party in the 1920s, and which was formally organised in the Communist Party of Iceland in 1930, in the Socialist Unity Party in 1938–1968, ...