Selected bibliography
Books:
1999: Hagvöxtur og iðnvæðing. Þjóðarframleiðsla á Íslandi 1870–1945 [Economic growth and industrialization. Iceland's national product, 1870-1945]. (Reykjavík: National Economic Institute, 1999).
1997: Hagskinna. Sögulegar hagtölur um Ísland [Icelandic Historical Statistics]. Ed. by Guðmundur Jónsson og Magnús S. Magnússon (Reykjavík: Statistics Iceland, 1997).
1992: The State and the Icelandic Economy, 1870-1930. Ph.D. thesis, London School of Economics and Politicial Science, 1992.
1981: Vinnuhjú á 19. öld [Servants in the 19th century]. Ritsafn Sagnfræðistofnunar 5 (Reykjavík 1981).
Peer-reviewved articles:
2014: “Iceland and the Nordic Model of Consensus Democracy”, Scandinavian Journal of History 39:4 2014, 510–528.
2009: „Efnahagskreppur á Íslandi 1870–2000“ [Economic crises in Iceland, 1870-2000], Saga 47:1 (2009), 45–74.
2009: “Fishing Nations in Crisis: The Response of the Icelandic and Norwegian Fisheries to the Great Depression”, International Journal of Maritime History, XXI, No. 1 (June 2009), 127–151.
2008: „Sagan og sannleikurinn. Getur sagnfræðileg þekking verið hlutlæg? [History and truth. Can historical knowledge be objective?], Ritið 1/2008, 107–128.
2006: „Endalok dönsku verslunarinnar á Íslandi“ [The end of the Danish trade in Iceland], Saga 44:2 (2006), 91–114.
2004: “Iceland, OEEC and the Trade Liberalisation of the 1950s”, Scandinavian Economic History Review Vol. LII: 2–3 (2004), 62–84.
2001: „The Icelandic Welfare State in the Twentieth Century“, Scandinavian Journal of History 26:3 (2001), 249–67.
2000: „Sagnaritun um hagsögu 19. og 20. aldar“ [Historiography of Icelandic economic history in the 19th and 20th centuries], Saga 38 (2000), 161–86.
1998: „Changes in Food Consumption in Iceland ca. 1770–1940“, Scandinavian Economic History Review, 46:1 (1998), 24–41.
1995: „Þjóðernisstefna, hagþróun og sjálfstæðisbarátta“ [Nationalism, economic development and the struggle for indepenence], Skírnir 169. ár (vor 1995), 65–93.
1993: „Institutional Change in Icelandic Agriculture, 1770–1940“, Scandinavian Economic History Review 41:2 (1993), 101–128.
Book chapters:
2019: „The Evolving Concept of the Welfare State in Icelandic Policy“, The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State. Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries. Edited by Nils Edling (New York: Berghahn 2019), 276–314.
2018: „Lýðræðishugmyndir almennings fram að fjármálakreppunni 2008“, Íslenskt lýðræði. Starfsvenjur, gildi og skilningur (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan 2018), 33–69.
2018: „Fullveldið í reynd á bernskuskeiði íslenska ríkisins 1918–1940“, Frjálst og fullvalda ríki. Ísland 1918–2018. Ritstj. Guðmundur Jónsson (Reykjavík: Sögufélag 2018), 95–127.
2015: “Danskeres økonomiske aktiviteter på Island i det 20. århundrede” í Gullfoss. Mødet melllem dansk og islandsk kultur i 1900-tallet. Forlaget Vandkunsten (København, 2015). Ritstjórar Auður Hauksdóttir, Erik Skyum-Nielsen og Guðmundur Jónsson, 85-129.
2013: (með Magnús Sveinn Helgason): ´Icelandic Consumers in Boom and Crisis´, in Retrenchment or renewal? Welfare states in times of economic crisis. Edited by Guðmundur Jónsson and Kolbeinn Stefánsson. NordWel Studies in Historical Welfare State Research 6. Helsinki 2013, 147–169.
2012: “The Impossible Dream: “Transferring the Danish Agricultural Model to Iceland”, in Alan S. Milward and a Century of Change. Edited by Fernando Guirao, Frances M.B. Lynch, and Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez (New York /London: Routledge, 2012), 206–220.
2011: (með Erni D. Jónssyni) „The Modernization of the Icelandic Diet and the Impact of War, 1914-1945“, Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe. Ed. by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Rachel Duffett and Alain Drouard (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 217–231.
2010: „Coming to Terms with Europe. Iceland‘s Entry into EFTA and Its implications“, EFTA 1960–2010. Elements of 50 Years of European History. Ed. by Kåre Bryn and Guðmundur Einarsson. EFTA (Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press, 2010), 77–97.
2009: „Munaður og nauðsynjar. Neysluviðhorf á tímum aukins verslunarfrelsis 1960–1990“, Heimtur. Ritgerðir til heiðurs Gunnari Karlssyni sjötugum. Ritstjórar: Guðmundur Jónsson, Helgi Skúli Kjartansson og Vésteinn Ólason. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2009, 160–175.
2008: „Hjálp til sjálfshjálpar. Borgaralegar rætur velferðarríkisins á Íslandi“, í Menntaspor. Rit til heiðurs Lofti Guttormssyni sjötugum 5. apríl 2008. Ritstj. Dóra S. Bjarnason o.fl. Sögufélag (Reykjavík, 2008), 371–393.
2008: (með Sigurði Snævarr) “Iceland’s Response to European Economic Integration, 1945–1960“, in Margrit Müller and Timo Myllyntaus (eds.), Pathbreakers. Small European Countries responding to Globalisation and Deglobalisation (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008), 375–406.
2004: „The Transformation of the Icelandic Economy: Industrialisation and Economic Growth, 1870–1950“, in Exploring Economic Growth. Essays in Measurement and Analysis. A Festschritft for Riitta Hjerppe on the 60th Birthday. Edited by Sakari Heikkinen and Jan Luiten Van Zanden (Amsterdam, 2004), 131–166.
2004: „Myndun fjármálakerfis á Íslandi“, Rætur Íslandsbanka. 100 ára fjármálasaga. Ritstjóri Eggert Þór Bernharðsso (Reykjavík: Íslandsbanki, 2004), 9–54.
2004: „Hvers kyns velferðarkerfi? Ísland í spegli hinna kvenvænu velferðarkerfa á Norðurlöndum“, Fléttur II. Kynjafræði – Kortlagningar. Rannsóknastofa í kvenna- og kynjafræðum. Ritstjóri Irma Erlingsdóttir (Reykjavík, 2004) 191–214.
2002: „Hagþróun og hagvöxtur á Íslandi 1914–1960“, Frá kreppu til viðreisnar. Þættir um hagstjórn á Íslandi á árunum 1930 til 1960. Ritstjóri Jónas H. Haralz (Reykjavík, 2002), 9–39.
Edited books:
2019: Nýtt Helgakver. Rit til heiðurs Helga Skúla Kjartanssyni sjötugum 1. febrúar 2019 [New Helgakver. A festschrift for Helgi Skúli Kjartansson on the occasion of his seventieth birthday]. Editors: Guðmundur Jónsson, Gunnar Karlsson og Ólöf Garðarsdóttir. Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 2019.
2018: Frjálst og fullvalda ríki. Ísland 1918-2018 [Free and sovereign state. Iceland 1918–2018]. Editor: Guðmundur Jónsson. Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 2018.
2015: Gullfoss. Mødet melllem dansk og islandsk kultur i 1900-tallet [Gullfoss. The encounter of Danish and Icelandic culture in the 20th century]. Editors: Auður Hauksdóttir, Erik Skyum-Nielsen og Guðmundur Jónsson. København: Forlaget Vandkunsten , 2015.
2009: Heimtur. Ritgerðir til heiðurs Gunnari Karlssyni sjötugum [Heimtur. A festschrift for Gunnar Karlsson on the occasion of his seventieth birthday]. Edistors: Guðmundur Jónsson, Helgi Skúli Kjartansson and Vésteinn Ólason. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2009.
2003: Nordic Historical National Accounts. Proceedings from Workshop VI. Reykjavik 19–20 September 2003. Editor: Guðmundur Jonsson. Reykjavík: Sagnfræðistofnun, 2003.
2002: Helgi Skúli Kjartansson, Ísland á 20. öld [Iceland in the 20th century]. Editors: Guðjón Friríksson, Guðmundur Jónsson and Gunnar Karlsson. Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 2002.
2004-: Editor of the Institute of Historical Research Series.
1995–2002: Editor of Saga, tímarit Sögufélags and Ný saga, tímarit Sögufélags.