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Trygve Henrik Hoff Trygve Henrik Hoff (7 July 1938 – 2 December 1987), born in Rognan, Nordland, was a Norwegian singer, composer, songwriter, and writer. He was a teacher at Buskerud folkehøgskole (Heimtun) for many years when he lived in Darbu, Øvre Eike ...

for the singer, composer and artist.'' Trygve J. B. Hoff (12 November 1895 – 4 January 1982) born in Kristiana, Norway was a Norwegian businessman, writer and editor of '' Farmand'', the Norwegian business magazine.

Background

Hoff was born in Oslo as a son of lawyer Alf Eid Rosenberg Hoff and Margrethe Jacobsen. Throughout his life Hoff remained attached to the Hoff family estate at Tjøme. In 1916, Hoff graduated from the Royal Frederick University with a degree in economics. After his graduation, he travelled to France; then later to the United States, where he studied banking and finance and worked on Wall Street. He was first married to Astrid Henriette Gundersen in August 1920 until her death in 1947. They had three children: Per Reinhardt Hoff (born 1922), Margrethe Hoff (born 1924), and

Ole-Jacob Hoff Ole-Jacob Hoff (born 1928 in Oslo) was a Norwegian economist, academician, author, publisher, and scholar. The son of a fellow economist and author, Trygve Hoff, Ole-Jacob Hoff also functioned as editor of the Norwegian-language economic per ...

(born 1928). Later on, he married Aase Synnøve Bye on 18 September 1948.

Career

Though he started writing in '' Dagbladet'' as an economics writer in 1920, Hoff was well known for being an editor and writer in '' Farmand'', a business magazine he bought in 1935. Hoff built Farmand to become the leading Norwegian business magazine of his time. At Farmand, he was well known for being an outspoken editor. He also made a clear policy that ''Farmand'' should be an apolitical body for the industry's freedom. In an article he wrote in 1935, he said: "We look not only at this battle for corporate social freedom from an economic standpoint. We regard it as part of the struggle for personal liberty and freedom of speech. Both the dictatorship States and in home runs fight against corporate social freedom go hand in hand with the fight against personal freedom and freedom of expression."

Political views

While studying economics at the University of Oslo in 1938, he became interested in the economic calculation debate and engaged in it on the side of the Austrian School which became his doctoral dissertation ("Calculation in a Socialist Planned Economy"). His doctoral dissertation was however ignored, and researchers point to the political views of his professors most prominently Ragnar Frisch strong socialist-leanings and

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affiliations and the post-World War political atmosphere as being perhaps the cause of this underappreciation. As well during the German occupation of Norway 1940–1945, Hoff was put in jail by the Germans for his political views. ''Farmand'' was banned by the occupation government and was therefore not published in the occupation years 1940–1945.

Mont Pelerin Society

Trygve Hoff was one of the founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society. As author, he contributed to the economic calculation debate, starting with his 1938 book ''Økonomisk kalkulasjon i socialistiske samfund'' (English: ''Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society'').

Publications

* '' Farmand Norsk Forretningsblad'', 1938–1982 The following are the books that were authored by Hoff:
''Økonomisk kalkulasjon i socialistiske samfund''
1938
''Fred og fremtid: liberokratiets vei''
1945 * ''Västerländsk frihet eller asiatiskt tvång'', 1946 * ''Why We Take the Trouble'', 1946 * ''La socialisation en Norvège'', 1953 * ''Snigende socialisering eller snigende liberalisering'', 1955
''Trygve J.B. Hoff: Tanker og idéer''
1975, * ''Ny kulturpolitikk: frå ord til handling'', 1978 with Lars Hauge,

References

Bibliography

* ''Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society'' (Full Text; 1938) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoff, Trygve 1895 births 1982 deaths Austrian School economists 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian writers