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Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739–1803 (Summer 2019)

Amdam, Rolv Petter (Author)
Fredona, Robert (Author)
Reinert, Sophus A. (Author)

Business History Review
Volume: 93
Issue: 2
Pages: 275-317

DOI: 10.1017/S0007680519000631

URI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/breaking-even-political-economy-and-private-enterprise-in-the-norwegian-glass-industry-17391803/022D3F0901318F66BD95B211481A8DED

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Business and Politics Glass and glassmaking Political economy Nationalism Natural resources Profit Business history 18th century Norway

Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic Christiania Glasmagasin. The investors in the company, many of them among Norway's “founding fathers,” were individually responsible for its losses and it operated, remarkably, at an annual loss for nearly five decades. The article asks why, beyond the anticipation of a royal import ban on foreign glass, private investors might have continued to accept such losses. It focuses on tensions between cameralist and liberal ideologies in the creation of an important national industry, and on older (and perhaps more sustainable) ways of thinking about profitability.

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