Contents

Preface

E. PAUL DURRENBERGER AND GISLI PALSSON

Introduction: The Banality of Financial Evil

GISLI PALSSON AND E. PAUL DURRENBERGER

Prologue: Some Poetic Thoughts Concerning Meltdowns

EINAR MÁR GUÐMUNDSSON

Before the Beginning

1. Vikings Invade Present-Day Iceland

KRISTÍN LOFTSDÓTTIR

2. Exploiting Icelandic History: 2000–2008

GUÐNI TH. JÓHANNESSON

3. Free Market Ideology, Crony Capitalism, and Social Resilience

ÖRN D. JÓNSSON AND RÖGNVALDUR J. SÆMUNDSSON

4. A Day in the Life of an Icelandic Banker

MÁR WOLFGANG MIXA

5. Something Rotten in the State of Iceland: “The Production of Truth” about the Icelandic Banks

VILHJÁLMUR ÁRNASON

After the Crash

6. Overthrowing the Government: A Case Study in Protest

JÓN GUNNAR BERNBURG

7. “Welcome to the Revolution!” Voting in the Anarcho-Surrealists

HULDA PROPPÉ

8. Creativity and Crisis

TINNA GRÉTARSDÓTTIR, ÁSMUNDUR ÁSMUNDSSON, AND HANNES LÁRUSSON

The Magic of “Virtual” Fish

9. Groundtruthing Individual Transferable Quotas

EVELYN PINKERTON

10. Virtual Fish Stink, Too

JAMES MAGUIRE

11. The Resilience of Rural Iceland

MARGARET WILLSON AND BIRNA GUNNLAUGSDÓTTIR

12. When Fishing Rights Go Up against Human Rights

NÍELS EINARSSON

The Crash and Communities

13. Schools in Two Communities Weather the Crash

GUÐNÝ S. GUÐBJÖRNSDÓTTIR AND SIGURLÍNA DAVÍÐSDÓTTIR

14. What Happened to the Migrant Workers?

UNNUR DÍS SKAPTADÓTTIR

15. Icelandic Language Schools after the Crash

PAMELA JOAN INNES

16. Charity in Pre- and Post-Crisis Iceland

JAMES G. RICE

Summing Up

Epilogue: The Neoliberal Con

DIMITRA DOUKAS

Retrospect

JAMES CARRIER

References

Index