Publications
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Books
- Háskaleg hagkerfi: Tækifæri og takmarkanir umbóta (2007). Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag.
- Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities and Limits of Reform, University of Michigan Press, 2005 (Chinese edition pending)
- Empirical Studies in Institutional Change, ed. with Lee Alston and Douglass North, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Chinese, Japanese editions)
Economic Behavior and Institutions, Cambridge University Press, 1990 (Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Rumanian, Korean, and Russian editions)
Essays
- Property, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed. 2007
- "On the Survival of Imperfect Institutions", Revista de Análisis Economico, Vol. 21(2), 13-24, December 2006
- "Evolution of Financial Institutions: Iceland’s Path from Repression to Eruption", with Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson. University of Iceland, Institute of Economics Working Paper Series, W05:10, 2005
- "The Subtle Art of Major Institutional Reform. Introducing Property Rights in the Iceland Fisheries". In G. van Huylenbroeck, W. Verbeke, L. Lauwers, eds. Role of Institutions in Rural Policies and Agricultural Markets, 43-59. Elsevier, 2004.
- "The Politics of Poverty". In Ram Mudambi, Pietro Navarra, and Guiseppi Sobrio, eds. Economic Welfare, International Business and Global Institutional Change. Edward Elgar, 2003.
- "Open Access versus Common Property". In Terry L. Anderson and Fred S. McChesney, eds. Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and the Law. Princeton University Press, 2002.
- "Norms in Economics—With Special Reference to Economic Development". In Michael Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp, eds. Social Norms. Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
- “Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game Against Nature in Pre-modern Iceland.” Explorations in Economic History 35, 1998: 1-30.
- “The Old Theory of Economic Policy and the New Institutionalism.” World Development 25(8): 1187-1203, 1997.
- “The Social Science of Wealth,” in Steven G. Medema & Warren J. Samuels (eds.), Foundations of Research in Economics: How Do Economists Do Economics? Edward Elgar Publishers, 1996
- “No Experiments, Monumental Disasters. Why it Took a Thousand Years to Develop A Specialized Fishing Industry in Iceland.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 30(1): 1-24, 1996.
- “On the Economics of Economics.” Kyklos, 201-210, 1995
- “Analyzing Institutional Successes and Failures: A Millennium of Common Mountain Pastures in Iceland.” International Review of Law and Economics 12, 1992, 423-437
- “Repressed Financial Systems as Instruments of Taxation: Evidence from Iceland.” Finnish Economic Papers 3(1):14-25, 1990
- “Inflation Expectations and the Demand for Money in Iceland.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 84(1): 1-12, 1982.
- “Determinants of Icelandic Foreign Relations.” Cooperation and Conflict 10, 91-99, 1975.