{"product_id":"menn-og-malefni-6257-9507","title":"People and issues # 6257","description":"People and Issues. A collection of essays and articles by Harald Jóhannsson. \u003cbr\u003eTopics: On policy: Should Iceland become the mistress of the United States? ; Remembering the October Revolution ; Whose clock tolls ; Why don't all Reykjavik residents live in houses? - On wage issues: Who takes the extra share from the table? - On George Bernard Shaw: George Bernaard Shaw: a century of remembrance ; The correspondence between Leo Tolstoy and Bernard Shaw. - On books: Two books or the Faust story, old and new ; On the vanishing hemisphere ; Balance or imbalance in international trade.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHaraldur Jóhannsson was born in Reykjavík in July 1926. He graduated from Reykjavík High School in 1946 and completed a master's degree in economics from the University of London in 1956. He then took a BA in history from the University of Iceland in 1986. He was an economist at the Economic Affairs Committee for a time in 1956, was chairman of the board of the Export Fund 1957-60 and chairman of the board of the Partial Insurance Fund 1959-62. He was also a lecturer at the universities of Malaya 1964-68 and Johannesburg in South Africa 1969-71. Haraldur was an economist at the State Construction Agency from 1973-1977 and worked on independent projects after that. Haraldur was one of the main economic advisors to the left-wing government of Hermann Jóhannsson in 1956-58.","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51126940959048,"sku":"OSC-9507","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/har_menn.jpg?v=1754836720","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/menn-og-malefni-6257-9507","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}