Blar i NHH Brage på forfatter "Basberg, Bjørn L."
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The 19th century Antarctic sealing industry : sources, data and economic significance
Basberg, Bjørn L.; Headland, Robert K. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-09)Sealing was the first exploitative industry in the Antarctic region. Throughout the 19th century it was characterized by large fluctuations in harvests and shifts in hunting grounds as seals were almost exterminated in ... -
Amateur or professional? : a new look at 19th century patentees in Norway
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper;12/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)The paper analyses Norwegian 19th century patentees. A special focus is on the affiliation or relationship of the patentees to the manufacturing industries, business and the wider economy. A main question is whether the ... -
Antarctic Tourism and Maritime Heritage
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Maritime activities in the Antarctic region date back to the eighteenth century. They evolved from exploration and discoveries to commercial enterprises, especially sealing, whaling and fishing. Antarctic tourism is a much ... -
Antarctic tourism and the maritime heritage
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-09)Maritime activity in the Antarctic region goes back to the 18th Century. It evolved from exploration and discoveries to commercial activities, especially sealing and whaling. Antarctic tourism is a more recent phenomenon, ... -
A crisis that never came : the decline of the European Antarctic whaling industry in the 1950s and -60s
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Den økonomiske krisen i 1847/48 : en analyse av kriseforløpet i Norge mot en internasjonal bakgrunn
Haldorsen, Kriss-Elin Meidell; Loftaas, Oda Høgelid (Master thesis, 2017)Formålet med denne masterutredningen er å undersøke forløpet til den økonomiske krisen i Norge i 1847/48 mot en internasjonal bakgrunn. Utredningen vil vurdere hvilke årsaker som førte til at norsk økonomi opplevde sterk ... -
FoU og patentering i norsk næringsliv : en studie av perioden 2001-2014
Sørum, Vibeke; Holo, Hanne (Master thesis, 2017)Denne studien har undersøkt i hvilken grad det er en sammenheng mellom forskning og utvikling (FoU) og patentering blant foretak i norsk næringsliv. FoU-aktivitet og patentering er nært knyttet til innovasjonsvirksomhet, ... -
Historical index of human development on Scandinavian countries 1820-2020 : construction and interpretation
Grytten, Daniel Valen (Master thesis, 2020)This thesis calculates and analyses wealth through the Historical Index of Human Development, which is constructed to account for both economic (GDP per capita/income) and social variables (life expectancy/health and ... -
In the wake of Tønnessen and Johnsen : trends in whaling history research after 1970
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)In 1970 the fourth and final volume of Arne Odd Johnsen and Joh. N. Tønnessens’s Den moderne hvalfangsts historie was published. The work represented a milestone in the writing about the development of the 20th century ... -
Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company. A personal and professional relationship.
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper;08/15, Working paper, 2015-04)John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd., London – a comparatively small and little known company founded in 1928. The ... -
Local currencies : the context of their emergence : an explanatory model on the number of local currencies launched in France from 2007 to 2017
Simon, Manon (Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this thesis was to identify the contextual factors that influence the creation of local currencies. To pinpoint these factors, two multiple linear regression models were developed in which the choice of the ... -
Managing the Antartic Krill Fisheries: An Empirical Analysis of Regulatory Regimes and its Effects on Krill and Predator Species for a Sustainable Industry
Kristjánsson, Kári; Matan, Shukri (Master thesis, 2022)Antarctica’s Southern Ocean hosts a large range of important species that have been the subject of marine exploitation for about two hundred of years. Historically, whales and seals have been overexploited and this has ... -
Patenter og teknologisk endring i Norge 1840-1980 : en metodediskusjon om patentdata anvendt som teknologi-indikator
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Doctoral thesis, 1984) -
Patenting and early industrialization in Norway, 1860-1914 : was there a linkage?
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-09) -
Perspectives on the economic history of the Antarctic region
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)This paper starts out by indicating how the economic history of the Antarctic could be conceptualized, given the peculiarities of the continent and the region (no permanent population, no sovereignty in a traditional ... -
Two hegemonies – two technological regimes : American and Norwegian whaling in the 19th and 20th Century
Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)The 19th century whaling industry was dominated by the United States while the 20th century industry had its origins in Norway and was dominated for years by that nation. The focus of the paper, is to explore the ...