Trygve J. B. Hoff was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 businessman, writer

Writer

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 and editor

Editing

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 of the Farmand

Farmand

Farmand was a business magazine published in Oslo, Norway from 1891 until it was discontinued in 1989.The founder and first editor was Einar Sundt from 1891 to 1917. Einar Hoffstad later took over, being editor from 1922 to 1926 and from 1933 to 1935. Trygve J. B. Hoff, one of the founding members...

business magazine

Magazine

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Hoff is most well known for his role as editor of the Farmand in Norway until his death. During the German occupation of Norway 1940-1945, Hoff was put in jail by the Germans for his political views.

Trygve Hoff was a founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society. As author, he contributed to the economic calculation debate, starting with his 1938 book Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society.