Farmand

Farmand

A farmand (or farmann) was a Norse tradesman. It is comprised of the words far as in "travel far and wide" and man. The old Norwegian king Bjørn Farmann bore this title.

Farmand was a business magazine published in Oslo, Norway from 1891 until it was discontinued in 1989, - with the exception of the wartime years 1940-45, when it was banned "forever" by the Nazi German occupation powers. It was a classic liberal, libertarian and market liberal weekly news magazine much inspired by The Economist. Farmand enjoyed such prominent columnists as Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Ludvig von Mises and many others from the early Mont Pelerin Society. The contents also included current (and inside-track) reports from East Bloc countries, not the least being the crushing of the "Prague Spring" in 1968. There were also literary excerpts, among them those from Constantine Fitzgibbon's dystopian romance during a communist takeover of England, "When the Kissing Had to Stop"." One of the attractions was a page of quotations with its popular "høyre hjørne" [lower right-hand corner] naughty jokes.

The editor was Trygve J.B. Hoff, one of the founding members of the Mt. Pelerin Society.

A magazine claiming to be a relaunch began online publishing online in 2005 under the modern Norwegian spelling Farmann.

Links

* [http://www.farmand.com Farmand legacy site]
* [http://www.farmann.no Farmann - the modern revival]


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