Frederik Stang

Frederik Stang (born March 4, 1808, Stokke, Norway—died June 8, 1884, Vestre Baerum) was a politician who was an early advocate of Norway’s transition to a capitalist economy. He was also the first minister of state for Norway in the Swedish-Norwegian union. As a university law professor in the 1830s, Stang was an early advocate of economic liberalism in the agricultural, largely state-directed economy of Norway. Appointed minister of the newly formed department of the...