Rapid rise of populist political parties around Europe and across the Atlantic in the early new millennium coincided with the simultaneous increased spread of conspiracy theories.
This book maps three waves of nativist populism in the post-war era, emerging into contemporary Neo-Nationalism. The third began to emerge after the Financial Crisis of 2008, soaring with the Refugee Crisis of 2015.
Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.