Odd Langholm (born 8 November 1928) is a Norwegian economist and historian of economic thought. He spent his entire academic career at the

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, being a professor from 1966 to 1998.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of Karl Johan Langholm (1891–1974) and Anna Stampen (1894–1976), who were both teachers. He was the younger brother of historian

Sivert Langholm Sivert Langholm (19 May 1927 – 16 April 2022) was a Norwegian historian. Life and career Sivert Langholm was born in Haugesund, and was the brother of Odd Langholm. He was a cand.philol. by education, and was appointed professor at the Univers ...

. In 1956 he married Grethe Togstad. They settled in

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Career

Langholm took the

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in 1947 and the business school exam in 1949. He then moved from Haugesund to Bergen, to study at the

. He graduated with the siv.øk. degree in 1954. For the next years he worked as a lecturer there, and took the dr.oecon. degree at the same institution in 1964, on the thesis ''Tidshorisonten for deterministiske planleggingsmodeller i normativ bedriftsøkonomikk''. He was the first person to take both the siv.øk. degree and the

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at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He was promoted to professor in 1966. After 1969 his focus shifted from

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towards the study of mediaeval economic thought. Between 1979 and 1998 he published five works in this field, many derived from sources in

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, a language in which he was skilled. These works were ''Price and Value in the Aristotelian Tradition. A Study in Scholastic Economic Sources'' (1979), ''Wealth and Money in the Aristotelian Tradition'' (1983), ''The Aristotelian Analyses of Usury'' (1984), ''Economics in the Medieval Schools. Wealth, Exchange, Value, Money and Usury according to the Paris Theological Tradition, 1200–1350'' (1992) and ''The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought. Antecedents of Choice and Power'' (1998). This body of work has given him international recognition. Langholm received an

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at the

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in 1992. For his sixtieth birthday, a

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was issued. He retired from his professorship in 1998.

Works

Books

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Langholm, Odd 1928 births Living people Norwegian economists 20th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian Latinists Norwegian medievalists Historians of economic thought Norwegian School of Economics alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian School of Economics People from Haugesund