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Name: Arno Mong Daastøl
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
Born: 04 Feb.1956 in Kragerø, Norway Civil status: Single

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: 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). 

EDUCATION
Cand. Oecon. (= MA - 6 year master in economics only)  University of Oslo , 1992
+ Cand. Mag. (= BA - 4 year separate bachelor) 1985 in Sociology (1,5 years) social-anthropology (1 year), and philosophy (1 year),  University of Oslo and University of Bergen
High-School: Cathedral School of Oslo, Cathedral School of Stavanger
Norwegian Representative at the int. camp: Camp Rising Sun, New York 1972

Master thesis: Interpretation and generalisation; The epistemology and methodology of economic science. 
Undergraduate essays: Collective bargaining (economics), Strategies for industrial democracy and creative participation (sociology), Research attitudes (social-anthropology). High-School Essays on: Trotsky, Spanish Civil War, Israeli Kibbutz movement

POST-GRADUATION  ARTICLES ON ECONOMIC POLICY 1995-99

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)