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1.         Surname : Daastøl

2.         Name : Arno Mong

Address: Utsiktsveien 34, NO-1410 Kolbotn, Norway
Phone:  (Prefix: 47) Work: 6300 8590 Private: 6680 6373  Fax: 66 99 53 25
Mobile : 9002 4956  Email: amd ( at ) daastol.com   amd ( at ) innotrans.net

3.         Date of birth : 04 Feb.1956 in Kragerø, Norway

4.         Nationality : Norway

5.         Civil status : Single

6.         Education :


Degree(s) or diploma(s) :

Institutions :

Date :
from year to year

Focus

Written:

Dissertation, master thesis and essays

PhD (Dr. rer .pol.)

Institute for Finance, University of Erfurt , Germany

2000-2011

 

Friedrich List's Heart, Wit and Will: Mental Capital as the Productive Force of Progress

PhD Cand (Drs.)

University of Maastricht , Netherlands

1994-1999

History of economic thought, economic history

 

Master

“Cand. Oecon.” (= State Exam)

University of Bergen and then
University of Oslo , both Norway

1979-1992

6 years in economics and econometrics only

Collective bargaining (economics);

Interpretation and generalisation; The epistemology and methodology of economic science

Bachelor

“Cand. Mag.”

University of Oslo , Norway

1981-1984

Sociology (1,5 years), cultural -anthropology (1 year) and philosophy (1 year) 

Strategies for industrial democracy and  creative participation (sociology), Research attitudes (anthropology).

High-School:

Cathedral School of Oslo, Norway

1973-1976

Society

Leo Trotsky, Spanish Civil War, Israeli Kibbutz movement

 

7.         Language skills : (Mark 1 to 5 for competence, where 5 is the highest)

Language

Passive

Spoken

Written

Norwegian

5

5

5

English

5

5

5

German

4

3

2

French

2

1

1

 

8.         Membership of professional bodies:

9.         Other skills (e.g. computer literacy, etc.) :

10.      Present position:

11.      Years within the company:

12.      Key qualifications (relevant to the project) :

13.      Specific experience (in non-EU member countries)

Country

 Date : from (months/year) to (months/year)

Name and brief description of the project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCCUPATION AND EXPERIENCE
Consultant in economics and transportation:
2001-2002:
Telenor R&D (national telecom - on automated transport); Posco; (1998)-2000: - Statens Vegvesen Akershus (the national Road Authorities – on automated transport); 1999-2000: Norges Rederiforbund (Norwegian Shipowners' Association – on industrial policy); 1996-1998: Farmers Association (on farming policy), Norsk Investorforum (financial instability).
Private business: from 2001: Founder and owner of the consultancy company InnoTrans; 2001-2006: Representative of Taxi2000 Corporation  in Norway; 2001; Co-founder and leader of Institute for Creditary Economics ; 1998-2000: Prime founder, co-owner, spokesman and co-ordinator for Norsk Sportaxi , a company in innovative urban transport.

Employment: 2000-2001 and 2011: Scientific assistant for Prof. Dr. Michael Hudson (research on the Norwegian oil fund for the Royal Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs), Scientific assistant (“Wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter)at the University of Erfurt, Germany, 1999-2000: Part-time teacher in computing, at Folkeuniversitetet i Follo; 1980-2000: 8 years as carpenter + a multitude of unskilled jobs in kindergarten, construction, shipyard, pulp factory, as a sailor.

Various: Leader of a local history association ( oppegard-historielag.org ), co-ordinator for ICE , (Institute for Creditary Economics - credec.org ).

Private business: 2006-2000: Representative of
Taxi2000 Corporation  in Norway; 2001: Founder and owner of the consultancy company InnoTrans; 2001: Co-founder and leader of Institute for Creditary Economics , 1998-2000: Prime founder, co-owner, spokesman and co-ordinator for Norsk Sportaxi , a company in innovative urban transport,

PhD Candidate (Doctorandes - Drs.), 2000-2001: at the University of Erfurt , Germany (economic methodology, - history, industrial development, South Africa, Russia), in 1994-1997 at the University of Maastricht  , the Netherlands

Diverse: 1999-2000: Part-time teacher in computing, at Folkeuniversitetet i Follo; 1980-2000: 7 years as carpenter + a multitude of unskilled jobs in kindergarten, construction, shipyard, pulp factory, as a sailor. Responsible for economic analysis, EU’s GIANT Project for innovative transit, 2006. Co-ordinator for EU’s EPIC Project for innovative transit, Co-ordinating companies in the European economic area, 2000. Leader of a local history association ( oppegaard-historielag.org ), co-ordinator for ICE , (Institute for Creditary Economics - credec.org ).
Webmaster: InnoTrans , Norsk Sportaxi , Institute for Creditary Economics ; Oppegård Historielag ,  Michael-Hudson.com
Postmaster: Discussion lists on International Finance (gang8, with members from major int. banks), Innovative transit (Eunitrans and Nonitrans). 

 

Norwegian Representative at the int. camp: Camp Rising Sun, New York 1972

 

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Position

 

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15.       Others:

 

            e.g. Publications :

 

Popular articles in the daily press: Dagens Næringsliv (15), Klassekampen (5) Wall Street Journal (3), Nationen (3), Universitas (3),  Østlandets Blad (6), Kragerø Blad /Avisa (6), Morgenbladet (1), Aftenposten (1)

Professional articles after 1996 (# of printings in parenthesis): Kollektivtrafikken: Pengesluk eller pengemaskin (‘Public Transport: White Elephant of Money Maker’), Friedrich List; article in the Encyclopaedia of Law and Society, and in The Elgar Companion of Law and Economics (2)
The Other Canon: The History of Renaissance Economics (3) , Friedrich List, founder of Law and Economics , Transportation and Civil Liberties, Karl Bücher's Contribution,  Production Capitalism v. Financial Capitalism - Symbiosis and Parasitism. Prolegomenon and Bibliography, The Techno-economic paradigm shift – consequences for Norwegian regional- and resource based industries. Shock-Therapy Rent-Seeking or Mercantilist Rent Creation: Transportation, Credit and Raw Materials in the Russian Transformation (3), Exploring the Genesis of Economic Innovations  (4), Friedrich Lists Einfluss in den Niederlanden (2), 

IN PRINTING:
Friedrich List, the Ultimate Globalist - Regulating Entrepreneurship and World Power.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: The Materialist Background to Formalism in Economics , Underconsumption and Financial Instability

WORKS IN PROGRESS: 
PhD:
Empirical Idealism in economic development: Friedrich List and the Integration of Southern Africa. 
Other:
On the
South African Development Path, Friedrich List’s Development Strategy: Transport, Economic Unification & Globalisation, The Strategic Historical and Economical Importance of the Netherlands until 1914, The Russian Transformation, Transformation - A Model of Soft-Capitalism for Eastern Europe, Wilhelm Roscher on welfare and population, Economic methodology (elaborated master thesis)