Aspects of the Norwegian timber trade in the 1840S and ’50S

Abstract

The 1840s and '50s saw the beginnings of a new wave of economic expansion in Norway. There are good reasons for regarding this as the opening stage of the industrial breakthrough. At the time the production of timber was the country's most important industry not only in the matter of size but also by virtue of the opportunities it offered for technical and economic innovation and the incentives it provided in other fields, particularly transport.

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Francis Sejersted

Francis Sejersted, born 1936, cando philol. 1965. Research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1967. Has written Norges Bank og höykonjunkturen i 1840-årene (1968) (The Bank of Norway and the Boom of the 1840's), and some articles on historical subjects.