Victor Danielsen Norman (born 18 July 1946 in Risør

Risør

is a city and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The city belongs to the traditional region of Sørlandet. It is a popular tourist place. The surrounding area includes many small lakes and hills, and is known for its beautiful coastline as well....

) is a Norwegian economist

Economist

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, politician

Politician

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 for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

 and newspaper columnist

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. He is currently professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Chairman

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 of the Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration

Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration

Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration or SNF is a research institute that is associated with the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway...

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Academics

Victor Norman earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 in 1972. Among his academic advisers were Charles P. Kindleberger

Charles P. Kindleberger

Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger was a historical economist and author of over 30 books. His 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes, about speculative stock market bubbles, was reprinted in 2000 after the dot-com bubble. He is well known for hegemonic stability theory.-Life:Kindleberger was born...

, Paul A. Samuelson and Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University. He is well known for his research in international trade and for his advocacy of free trade....

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His book co-authored with Avinash K. Dixit, Theory of International Trade : A Dual, General Equilibrium Approach, ISBN 0-521-29969-1, is an application of the microeconomic principle of duality to trade theory

New Trade Theory

New Trade Theory is a collection of economic models in international trade which focuses on the role of increasing returns to scale and network effects, which were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s....

, which William J. Baumol has called a clear, detailed, important contribution to the academic understanding of international trade. He was appointed professor of economics at NHH in 1975.

Victor Norman served as rector

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 at NHH from August 1999 till October 2001. He was preceded in this position by Carl Julius Norstrøm

Carl Julius Norstrøm

Carl Julius Norstrøm is a Norwegian Economist who served as rector of the Norwegian School of Economics from 1995-1998.He is currently professor at NHH and is a graduate of the same institution.-References:...

 and succeeded by Per Ivar Gjærum

Per Ivar Gjærum

Per Ivar Gjærum is associate professor of finance and management science at the Norwegian School of Economics . He served rector of NHH from October 2001 to August 2005. His predecessor was Victor D. Norman and he was succeeded by Jan Haaland. His specialty fields involve investment and project...

. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

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Politics

From 19 October 2001 to 8 March 2004 he served as Minister of Labour and Government Administration in the second cabinet Bondevik

Second cabinet Bondevik

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. Among the issues he passed in his term was the removal of point accrual on frequent flyer program

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s for domestic flights

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