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"Approaching an abyss": liberalist ideology in a Norwegian Cold War business paper
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Abstract The international business press has been a powerful and influential voice in modern societies and, as its formative years took place during the Cold War, a closer look at the ideologies that were promoted in this part of the press is of interest. Until the 1970s, Farmand was the only Norwegian busi... view more
The international business press has been a powerful and influential voice in modern societies and, as its formative years took place during the Cold War, a closer look at the ideologies that were promoted in this part of the press is of interest. Until the 1970s, Farmand was the only Norwegian business magazine of any size and standing. Trygve J. B. Hoff, Farmand's editor from 1935, was part of the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS), a neoliberal intellectual collective established in 1947 with participants such as Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. This article is a study of the ideas that Hoff promoted, particularly in Farmand, from the 1940s to the 1970s.... view less
Keywords
cold war; Norway; press; economy; democracy; liberalism; media; history of media; ideology
Classification
Media Politics, Information Politics, Media Law
Print Media
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
Free Keywords
Mont Pèlerin Gesellschaft
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 52-61
Journal
Media and Communication, 6 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Media history and democracy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed