Blar i Department of Economics 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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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 ... -
Patenting and early industrialization in Norway, 1860-1914 : was there a linkage?
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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 ...