Jason Beck­fi­eld, pro­fessor and Chair of Soci­ology at Harvard Uni­versity is the guest of our first podcast in Eng­lish. Jason´s res­e­arch has focused on how the European Union has impacted inequ­ality and the welfare state, as well as how institutional arrangements impact health inequ­alities wit­hin and across nations. He discus­ses his res­e­arch with Sig­rún, but also more broa­dly about U.S. polit­ics, the Trump administration and his elect­ion. And as Jason is a true fri­end of Iceland, they briefly discuss what it is about Iceland and Icelandic soci­ety that is fascinat­ing.