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Espen Storli

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Espen Storli

Professor
Department of Historical Sciences

espen.storli@ntnu.no
+4773596660 Bygg 1, 1415, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
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About

Espen Storli is professor at the Department of Modern History and Society at NTNU. He was educated at the universities of Stavanger, Bergen, York, Valladolid and Trondheim, and finished his PhD at NTNU in 2010. In 2011-2012 he was the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School. 

His research interests are mainly found at the intersection between business and politics, with a special interest in the development of international business in the 20th Century. He is now working on the project "The hidden companies of the global economy: the development of international commodity traders, 1945-2015", a project which is funded through Fellesløftet, the Norwegian Research Council and the Norwegian universities' joint funding initiative for Young Research Talents. For more information about the project, see https://www.ntnu.edu/ihs/traders.

Together with Dr. Andrew Perchard (Coventry University) and Dr. Mats Ingulstad (NTNU) he has established the History and Strategic Raw Materials Initiative, an interdisciplinary international network working on questions related to the issue of strategic raw materials. For more information about the initiative, see the project's website: http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/hsrmi. In August 2014, Routledge published Tin and Global Capitalism: A History of "The Devil's Metal", 1850-2000, edited by Ingulstad, Perchard and Storli (hhttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415737050/)

Espen Storli was formerly the editor for book reviews in the Scandinavian Economic History Review. He is a referee for Business History Review, Business History, Economic History Review and Journal of International Business Studies.

Competencies

  • Business History
  • Economic history
  • International history
  • Modern European history after 1800
  • Political history

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2025

  • Ingulstad, Mats Asklund; Sanders, Andreas Richard Dugstad; Storli, Espen. (2025) En åpen fortid: Erfaringer med casebasert undervisning på NTNU. Historikeren
    Professional article

2024

  • Boon, Marten; Storli, Espen. (2024) Introduction: Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen; Boon, Marten. (2024) Creating Global Capitalism: Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy. Routledge
    Anthology

2023

  • Storli, Espen. (2023) The Role of Business Services in the Development of European Commodity Trading Companies in the 20th Century.
    Academic chapter
  • Boon, Marten; Storli, Espen. (2023) Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy. Business History
    Academic article
  • Frøland, Hans Otto; Ingulstad, Mats; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2023) The aluminium state: how have Norwegian governments shaped the country’s aluminium industry?. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
    Academic article
  • Sanders, Andreas Richard Dugstad; Storli, Espen. (2023) Naturressourcen.
    Academic chapter
  • Perchard, Andrew; Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen. (2023) The Mining Industry: Expanding, Deepening, and Widening since the 1750s.
    Academic chapter

2022

  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2022) Taming the Leviathans: How Norway managed to regulate the strongest international cartels and trusts, 1900-1940.
    Academic chapter

2021

  • Lobach, Simon; Storli, Espen. (2021) The end of the Free State of Rorac: bauxite concessioning and Maroon displacement in colonial Suriname. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen; Hierro, Pablo Del. (2021) Poisoned Partnership: The International Mercury Cartel and Spanish–Italian Relations, 1945–1954. Enterprise & Society
    Academic article
  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2021) Standard Oil og monopolkapitalismens inntog i Norge, 1890-1935. Historisk tidsskrift
    Academic article

2020

  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2020) The quest for a non-competitive market, Standard oil, the international oil industry and the Scandinavian states, 1890-1939. Scandinavian Economic History Review
    Academic article

2019

  • Storli, Espen. (2019) Global commodity traders.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic Countries, 1880–1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Conclusion.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015. University of British Columbia Press
    Anthology
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Natural Resource Regulations and the Global Economy.
    Academic chapter

2016

  • Storli, Espen; Nybø, Andreas. (2016) Publish or be damned? Early cartel legislation in USA, Germany and Norway, 1890-1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Dugstad, Andreas R. Sanders; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2016) Dealing with globalization: The Nordic countries and inward FDI, 1900-1939. Business History
    Academic article

2014

  • Storli, Espen. (2014) The Birth of the World's Largest Tin Merchant: Philipp Brothers, Bolivian Tin and American Stockpiles.
    Academic chapter
  • Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen; Perchard, Andrew. (2014) Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of "the Devil's Metal". Routledge
    Anthology
  • Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen; Perchard, Andrew. (2014) "The Path of Civilization is Paved with Tin Cans": The Political Economy of the Global Tin Industry.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2014) Cartel Theory and Cartel Practice: The Case of the International Aluminum Cartels, 1901-1940. Business History Review
    Academic article

2013

  • Gendron, Robin S.; Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen. (2013) Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry. University of British Columbia Press
    Anthology
  • Storli, Espen. (2013) The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900-1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen; Gendron, Robin S.. (2013) Opening Pandora's Bauxite: A Raw Materials Perspective on Globalization Processes in the Twentieth Century.
    Academic chapter
  • Sandvik, Pål T; Storli, Espen. (2013) Big business and small states: Unilever and Norway in the interwar years. The Economic History Review
    Academic article

2012

  • Storli, Espen. (2012) Trade and Politics: the Western Aluminium Industry in the Soviet Union in the Interwar period.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen; Jones, Geoffrey. (2012) Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading. Harvard Business School Publishing
    Working paper
  • Storli, Espen. (2012) "Contribution a une histoire des cartels en Suisse" [Contributions to a History of Swiss Cartels], edited by Alain Cortat, Neuchatel 2010. Business History Review
    Book review

2011

  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2011) Confronting market power : Norway and international cartels and trusts, 1919-39. Scandinavian Economic History Review
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2011) Jan Pedersen: Danmarks økonomiske historie 1910-1960. Historisk tidsskrift
    Book review

2010

  • Storli, Espen. (2010) Out of Norway Falls Aluminium: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry in the International Economy, 1908 – 1940. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral thesis
  • Storli, Espen. (2010) Koppevaksinasjon - en offentlig helsesuksess. Arkivmagasinet
    Popular science article

2009

  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2009) Big business, market power and small nations, The Norwegian aluminium and nickel industry 1920-1939.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen; Bregaint, David. (2009) The Ups and Downs of Family Life: Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap, 1912-1976. Enterprise & Society
    Academic article

2008

  • Storli, Espen. (2008) Marked, kartell og stat: den norske aluminiumsindustrien i mellomkrigstiden.
    Academic chapter

2007

  • Storli, Espen. (2007) The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) Hva ville egentlig Venstre med konsulatsaken?. Historisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) Seip eller fakta? Unionspolitikkens indrepolitiske og partitaktiske funksjoner på konservativ side i Norge og Sverige i perioden 1890 til 1905.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) Leiv Mjeldheim: Den gylne mellomvegen. Tema frå Venstres historie 1905-1940. Historisk tidsskrift
    Book review

2006

  • Storli, Espen. (2006) Different Paths to Modernity. A Nordic and Spanish Perspective. Eds. Magnus Jerneck, Magnus Mörner, Gabriell Tortella & Sune Åkerman. Lund 2005. Scandinavian Economic History Review
    Book review

2001

  • Storli, Espen. (2001) "Det första steget på en för unionen förderflig väg" Norge, Sverige og handelstraktatene med Spania 1892. Historisk institutt, NTNU
    Master thesis

Journal publications

  • Boon, Marten; Storli, Espen. (2023) Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy. Business History
    Academic article
  • Frøland, Hans Otto; Ingulstad, Mats; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2023) The aluminium state: how have Norwegian governments shaped the country’s aluminium industry?. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
    Academic article
  • Dugstad, Andreas R. Sanders; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2016) Dealing with globalization: The Nordic countries and inward FDI, 1900-1939. Business History
    Academic article
  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2011) Confronting market power : Norway and international cartels and trusts, 1919-39. Scandinavian Economic History Review
    Academic article
  • Sandvik, Pål T; Storli, Espen. (2013) Big business and small states: Unilever and Norway in the interwar years. The Economic History Review
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) Hva ville egentlig Venstre med konsulatsaken?. Historisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Ingulstad, Mats Asklund; Sanders, Andreas Richard Dugstad; Storli, Espen. (2025) En åpen fortid: Erfaringer med casebasert undervisning på NTNU. Historikeren
    Professional article
  • Storli, Espen. (2014) Cartel Theory and Cartel Practice: The Case of the International Aluminum Cartels, 1901-1940. Business History Review
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2006) Different Paths to Modernity. A Nordic and Spanish Perspective. Eds. Magnus Jerneck, Magnus Mörner, Gabriell Tortella & Sune Åkerman. Lund 2005. Scandinavian Economic History Review
    Book review
  • Lobach, Simon; Storli, Espen. (2021) The end of the Free State of Rorac: bauxite concessioning and Maroon displacement in colonial Suriname. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen; Hierro, Pablo Del. (2021) Poisoned Partnership: The International Mercury Cartel and Spanish–Italian Relations, 1945–1954. Enterprise & Society
    Academic article
  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2021) Standard Oil og monopolkapitalismens inntog i Norge, 1890-1935. Historisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2010) Koppevaksinasjon - en offentlig helsesuksess. Arkivmagasinet
    Popular science article
  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2020) The quest for a non-competitive market, Standard oil, the international oil industry and the Scandinavian states, 1890-1939. Scandinavian Economic History Review
    Academic article
  • Storli, Espen. (2012) "Contribution a une histoire des cartels en Suisse" [Contributions to a History of Swiss Cartels], edited by Alain Cortat, Neuchatel 2010. Business History Review
    Book review
  • Storli, Espen. (2011) Jan Pedersen: Danmarks økonomiske historie 1910-1960. Historisk tidsskrift
    Book review
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) Leiv Mjeldheim: Den gylne mellomvegen. Tema frå Venstres historie 1905-1940. Historisk tidsskrift
    Book review
  • Storli, Espen; Bregaint, David. (2009) The Ups and Downs of Family Life: Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap, 1912-1976. Enterprise & Society
    Academic article

Books

  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015. University of British Columbia Press
    Anthology
  • Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen; Perchard, Andrew. (2014) Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of "the Devil's Metal". Routledge
    Anthology
  • Gendron, Robin S.; Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen. (2013) Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry. University of British Columbia Press
    Anthology
  • Storli, Espen; Boon, Marten. (2024) Creating Global Capitalism: Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy. Routledge
    Anthology

Part of book/report

  • Storli, Espen. (2019) Global commodity traders.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2014) The Birth of the World's Largest Tin Merchant: Philipp Brothers, Bolivian Tin and American Stockpiles.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2023) The Role of Business Services in the Development of European Commodity Trading Companies in the 20th Century.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic Countries, 1880–1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Conclusion.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Natural Resource Regulations and the Global Economy.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2012) Trade and Politics: the Western Aluminium Industry in the Soviet Union in the Interwar period.
    Academic chapter
  • Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen; Perchard, Andrew. (2014) "The Path of Civilization is Paved with Tin Cans": The Political Economy of the Global Tin Industry.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen; Nybø, Andreas. (2016) Publish or be damned? Early cartel legislation in USA, Germany and Norway, 1890-1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2013) The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900-1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen; Gendron, Robin S.. (2013) Opening Pandora's Bauxite: A Raw Materials Perspective on Globalization Processes in the Twentieth Century.
    Academic chapter
  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2022) Taming the Leviathans: How Norway managed to regulate the strongest international cartels and trusts, 1900-1940.
    Academic chapter
  • Sanders, Andreas Richard Dugstad; Storli, Espen. (2023) Naturressourcen.
    Academic chapter
  • Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2009) Big business, market power and small nations, The Norwegian aluminium and nickel industry 1920-1939.
    Academic chapter
  • Boon, Marten; Storli, Espen. (2024) Introduction: Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy.
    Academic chapter
  • Perchard, Andrew; Ingulstad, Mats; Storli, Espen. (2023) The Mining Industry: Expanding, Deepening, and Widening since the 1750s.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2007) Seip eller fakta? Unionspolitikkens indrepolitiske og partitaktiske funksjoner på konservativ side i Norge og Sverige i perioden 1890 til 1905.
    Academic chapter
  • Storli, Espen. (2008) Marked, kartell og stat: den norske aluminiumsindustrien i mellomkrigstiden.
    Academic chapter

Report

  • Storli, Espen; Jones, Geoffrey. (2012) Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading. Harvard Business School Publishing
    Working paper

Student thesis or dissertation

  • Storli, Espen. (2001) "Det första steget på en för unionen förderflig väg" Norge, Sverige og handelstraktatene med Spania 1892. Historisk institutt, NTNU
    Master thesis
  • Storli, Espen. (2010) Out of Norway Falls Aluminium: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry in the International Economy, 1908 – 1940. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral thesis

Teaching

Courses

  • HIST3500 - Environmental and sustainability history
  • HIST1500 - Modern History after ca 1750
  • HIST2007 - Nationalism, Imperialism and Democratization after 1750
  • KRIG3050 - War, the environment and sustainability
  • HIST1550 - Modern History after ca. 1750 for cultural heritage managers
  • HIST2012 - Politics, society and culture in Europe after 1945
  • HIST3400 - The global political economy of natural resources, 1870-2000
  • KRIG3051 - War, the environment and sustainability
  • HIST2008 - Economic History
  • HIST3051 - Master Thesis in History - Five-year Teacher Education

Outreach

2026

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Perchard, Andrew; Pitteloud, Sabine; Bott, Sandra; Elsig, Alexandre. (2026) The Aluminium Industry and the Environment: Tackling Industrial Pollution in Switzerland, Scotland and Norway, 1890-2000. The 2026 Meeting of the Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2026) The aluminium industry and the environment: tackling industrial pollution in Switzerland, Scotland and Norway, 1890-2000. 4th Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History

2025

  • Conference lecture
    Heegaard, Poul Einar; Silde, Tjerand; Storli, Espen. (2025) Etableringen av informasjonssikkerhet som fagfelt i Norge, 1980-1990. Midtnorsk historieseminar 2025
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2025) Monopoly Power and Economic Independence: Standard Oil in Iceland, 1900-1930. Nordiske historikermøte
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Rye, Ståle Angen; Hyldmo, Håkon da Silva; Ingulstad, Mats; Dodge, Alexander Steven; Kurniwan, Nanang Indra. (2025) A new resource nationalism? Indonesian tin and nickel policies. The Long View and the Short in Building Resilience: Natural Resources and Geoeconomics in the 21st Century
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2025) Strategic raw materials and government policies, the Scandinavian countries and oil in the interwar years. World Economic History Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2025) Business History and Natural Resources. Harvard Business School Workshop, 2025 Business History Conference
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2025) Casebasert undervisning. Utdanningssnakk - webinar om kunnskapsbasert undervisning
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2025) Monopoly Power and Economic Independence: Standard Oil in Iceland, 1890-1930. 2025 Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2025) Multinationals and the global governance of natural resources. Open lecture, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2025) Strategic raw materials and government policies: Iceland and Standard Oil in the 1920s. World Economic History Congress 2025

2024

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2024) Norske selskapers direkte utenlandsinvesteringer i den andre globale økonomien, 1980-2025. Samtidshistoriens yttergrenser
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Rabben, Magne Brekke. (2024) Kartelliseringen av den norske sykkelindustrien, 1917-1940. 2nd Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History
  • Contribution to radio or TV
    Storli, Espen. (2024) Walk On The Blade: The Marc Rich & Co Commodities Story.
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2024) The historical development of price-setting mechanisms for natural resources. The 2024 Meeting of the Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2024) Making cents of it all:The historical development of price-setting mechanisms for natural resources. Geosciences, Knowledge and Property Rights Workshop
  • Conference lecture
    Ingulstad, Mats; Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Storli, Espen. (2024) Erfaringer med Casebasert læring (CBL) 
i teknologifag og tverrfaglig historieundervisning. Midtnorsk historieseminar

2023

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Guldal, Ingeborg. (2023) South-south collaboration: the case of CIPEC. LASA/Africa 2023 hybrid Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Ingulstad, Mats; Frøland, Hans Otto; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2023) The Aluminium State and its Smelting Pact. State Intervention in the Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1906-2010. The Winter Games in Economic History
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2023) Introduction to the Handbook on the economic history of natural resources. Natural Resource Supply Chains and Competing Visions of Global Order: Future Directions for Research
  • Conference lecture
    Rabben, Magne Brekke; Storli, Espen. (2023) Kartelliseringen av norsk sykkelindustri, 1918-1945. Midtnorsk historieseminar
  • Conference lecture
    Guldal, Ingeborg; Storli, Espen. (2023) «Now is the time»: Zambia, Chile and the dream of creating a better world through the means of international copper co-operation, 1967-1974. European Business History Association Annual Conference 2023

2022

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Perchard, Andrew; Ingulstad, Mats. (2022) The Mining Industry. Chapter development workshop for Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) The role of business services in the development of European commodity trading companies in the 20th century. European Business History Association Conference 2022
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2022) Taming the Leviathans: how Norway managed to regulate the strongest international cartels and trusts, 1900-1940. 2022 Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) Invited commentator in session 5a: Natural Resources and Imperial Anxieties. 2022 Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) The price is right? The aluminium pricing revolution of the 1970s. The History of Natural Resources-workshop University of Bucuresti-NTNU
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) A short history of Equinor, 1972-2022. Conference on some historical aspects pertaining to Norway´s petroleum industry
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2022) Constructing and Defending Monopoly Power, Standard Oil in Norway 1890-1914. World Economic History Conference 2022
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2022) Creating monopoly profits; large oil companies and the Scandinavian markets in the 1930s. World Economic History Conference 2022
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) Numbers in history, history in numbers. Historical theory, methods and research ethics
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) Price-setting mechanisms, commodity exchanges and traders. Workshop on the Economic History of Natural Resources
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) Paneldiskussion: Ska man handla med icke-demokratier?. Prins Bertil-seminaret 2022
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2022) Råvarer og internasjonal handel i et historisk perspektiv. Prins Bertil-seminaret 2022
  • Conference lecture
    Frøland, Hans Otto; Ingulstad, Mats; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2022) The Aluminium State: How have Norwegian governments shaped the country's aluminium industry?. XIX World Economic History Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2022) Creating monopoly profits: large oil companies and the Scandinavian markets in the 1930s. Investing and re-investing oil revenues during the 20th century: The role of banks, countries, institutions and multinationals
  • Interview
    Storli, Espen. (2022) Peker på nasjonalistiske undertoner i norske krigsfilmer.

2021

  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2021) Karteller i Norge. Faglig foredrag for linjeforeningen for historiestudenter, NTNU
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2021) Conquering the bauxite lands of Dutch Guiana. Bauxites and aluminas: a history and a heritage in question
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2021) How to reuse a strategic stockpile? The Norwegian ferroalloy industry and the end of the British stockpile program in the late 1950s. 14th Swedish Economic History Meeting/2nd Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2021) South-south cooperation: the case of CIPEC. "Africa and Latin-America in comparative perspective: neo-extractivism, inequality and development
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Ingulstad, Mats; Perchard, Andrew. (2021) The Mining Industries. Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics Workshop
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2021) Invited commentator on session Session J03: Competitiveness in Commodities. 2nd World Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2021) Breaking down the barriers to entry: The international aluminium cartel and new entrants to the industry in the interwar years. 2nd World Business History Conference

2020

  • Interview
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2020) Den første kampen om oljen.
  • Interview
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2020) Den første kampen om oljen i Norge.
  • Interview
    Storli, Espen. (2020) Hjemme bra men Dragvoll best: om historieundervisningen ved NTNU under en pandemi.
  • Interview
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2020) Den første kampen om oljen i Norge.

2019

  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2019) Ressursenes velsignelse og forbannelse: hvordan forandret "djevelens metall" Bolivia?. Minervas ugle
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Standard Oil, the international oil industry and the Scandinavian market 1890- 1930. Svenska ekonomisk-historiska mötet
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2019) Economic nationalism in liberal democracies: the case of Norway in the first half of the 20th century. European Business History Association Annual Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2019) Oil and the creation of global capitalism. Business history-emne for masterstudenter
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2019) Building the Global Economy: Norway, Bolivia, and the creation of global value chains for metals and minerals, 1890-1940. VI Congreso Latino-Americano de Historia Económica (CLADHE VI)
  • Conference lecture
    Sanders, Andreas R. Dugstad; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Hove, Jon Olav; Storli, Espen. (2019) Stay on Campus: The Political Economy of Resource Regulation. Stay on campus
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Small states and monopoly power: The international oil industry and the Scandinavian market 1890-1940. Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2019) Standard Oil, Vallø Oljeraffineri og monopolkapitalismens innmarsj i Norge. Norske historiedager
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2019) The Historical Impact of Multinational Companies. Multinational Corporations and the Politics of International Trade

2018

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) Introduction to the history of global commodity traders. Workshop for special issue of Business History journal on "Commodity Trading Companies in the First Global Economy, 1870-1929"
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) Mercury Falling: The Demise of the International Mercury Industry in the 1970s. The 2018 Meeting of the Business History Conference
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) De skjulte storselskapene. Minervas ugle
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) The price is right? The development of pricing mechanisms for commodities in the 20th century. The economic history of natural resources and sustainable development
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) Invited commentator on session on "Multinationals and the Transformation of the World Economy". XVIII World Economic History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2018) Small states and monopoly power: the international oil industry and the Scandinavian market 1890-1930. XVIII World Economic History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) The sunset years of the international mercury industry in the 1970s. European Business History Association 22nd Annual Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) A New International (Political Economy) History of Natural Resources. Contemporary International History: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2018) Teaching International History. Contemporary International History: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2018) Staten og kapitalen; Standard Oil, de skandinaviske statene og monopolmaktens problem ca 1890-1930. Akademimøte

2017

  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen; Sanders, Andreas Dugstad. (2017) Natural Resource Regulations and the Global Economy, 1870-2015: An Overview. Workshop Fate of Nations
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Living with Institutional Duality: Antitrust Laws, American Big Business and International Cartels, 1890-1940. The 2017 Meeting of the Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Invited commentator, session 7A "Commodity Cartels". The 2017 Meeting of the Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2017) "A noble and gentlemanlike way of negotiating", Standard Oil i Skandinavia 1890-1940. Norske historiedager
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Global commodity traders, 1870-2015. International Business and Civilizations
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Lecea, Pablo del Hierro. (2017) The political and economic relations between the US and Spain at the start of the Cold War: a reassessment. Seminario del Departamento de Historia Económica, Universidad Complutense
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Fremveksten av multinasjonale selskaper. Eldretreff Hoeggen kirke/Risvollan
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2017) Standard Oil in Scandinavia, 1890-1919. 21st European Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Lecea, Pablo del Hierro. (2017) Poisoned Relations: The International Mercury Cartel and the Cold War, 1945-1954. Workshop Fate of Nations
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Commodity trading companies in the first global economy, 1870-1914. Commodity trading companies in the first global economy, 1870-1913
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Companies and cartels and the fate of nations. Fate of Nations Opening Conference
  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2017) Making a career plan. The Postdoc Action at NTNU
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2017) Economic nationalism in liberal democracies: the case of Norway, 1880-1940. The "Nationality" of the Company: Historical Approaches to a Possible Paradox

2016

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2016) The Future's Overrated: The Aluminium Pricing Revolution of 1978. 1st World Congress on Business History/20th Congress of the European Business History Association
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Lecea, Pablo del Hierro. (2016) "Mercury Rising": Spain, Italy, the US and the Political Economy of the International Mercury Markets, 1945-1954. Seminario de Departamento de Historia Económica II, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2016) Creating global value chains in the bauxite/aluminium industry – the example of Suriname. Global Earth Matters: Mining, Materiality and the Museum - Bauxite and Aluminium
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2016) Making markets: from listed prices to spot markets in international commodity markets in the 1970s. 2016 meeting of the Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2016) La historia económica de Noruega, 1814-2016. Seminario de Departamento de Historia Económica II, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2016) Breaking up (a stockpile) is hard to do: The political economy of British stockpile liquidation. Space, place and the management of scarce resources: a symposium

2015

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2015) Breaking Up (a Stockpile) Is Hard To Do: The Political Economy of the Liquidation of the British Strategic Stockpile Program in the 1950s. 2015 Joint Business History Conference/European Business HIstory Association conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2015) The Hidden Companies of the Global Economy: Introduction to the project. Inaugural workshop in the project "The Hidden Companies of the Global Economy"
  • Interview
    Storli, Espen; Ingulstad, Mats; Perchard, Andrew. (2015) Exploring Environmental History podcast: Podcast 64: Tin: a historical perspective on a networked resource.
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2015) The periphery strikes back: the nationalization wave of the 1960s-70s and the challenge to vertical integration in resources based industries. "Core" and "periphery" in contemporary history
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen; Sanders, Andreas Dugstad. (2015) Natural Resource Regulations and the Global Economy 1850-2000. World Economic History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen; Sanders, Andreas Dugstad. (2015) Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic Countries 1880-1940. World Economic History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2015) Pricing commodities: the shift from producer pricing systems. Making Markets: Histories of Commodity Grading and Trading

2014

  • Lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2014) Lek som forskningsmetode: playing with research. Prestasjonsklyngen - utøversamling
  • Lecture
    Bregaint, David Marcel Renee; Storli, Espen. (2014) Bjørn Sørenssen "Den Første Krigspropaganda Film: Slaget ved Somme". Den Store Krigen - NTNU 2014
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Nybø, Andreas. (2014) Conspiracy against the public or instruments of economic efficiency? A comparative analysis of early cartel legislation in USA, Germany and Norway. European Business History Association 18th Annual Congress
  • Interview
    Storli, Espen. (2014) Skyggeselskapene.
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Dugstad, Andreas R. Sanders; Storli, Espen. (2014) Regulation of Natural Resources, A Research Agenda. European Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2014) The Cold War as a business opportunity: Metal traders and PL480. Business History Conference 2014

2013

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Lecea, Pablo del Hierro. (2013) "Mercury Rising": Spain, Italy and the US and the struggle for control over mercury, 1945-1954. European Business History Association 17th Annual Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål T; Dugstad, Andreas R. Sanders; Storli, Espen. (2013) Regulering av naturressurser i de nordiske land 1850-1940. Tionde Ekonomisk-historiska mötet, Lund
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål T; Storli, Espen; Dugstad, Andreas R. Sanders. (2013) Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic Countries 1850-1940. European Business History Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Lecea, Pablo del Hierro. (2013) "Mercury Rising": Spain, Italy and the US and the Struggle for the Control of the Mercury Production, 1945-1954. HSRMI Conference 2013
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2013) The changing structure of the international tin markets: Philipp Brothers in Bolivia, 1928-1970. Tin in the Global Economy
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2013) The changing structure of the international extractive industries, 1950-1980. Natural resources, global justice and obstacles to sustainability
  • Conference lecture
    Dugstad, Andreas R. Sanders; Sandvik, Pål T; Storli, Espen. (2013) Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic countries 1880 - 1940. The history of regulation of natural resources in a global perspective
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2013) Doing business in a wave of nationalizations: Philipp Brothers and the Bolivian tin experience. Social and Economic History seminar, Utrecht University

2012

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2012) Doing Business in a Wave of Nationalization: Philipp Brothers and the Bolivian Tin Experience. Translating Potential into Profits: Foreign Multinationals in Emerging Markets since the 19th Century
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål T; Storli, Espen; Dugstad, Andreas. (2012) The State and foreign ownership in the Nordic countries: the end of the first wave of economic globalization (1900-1939). European business history association
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2012) Creating cultures? Rooms for maneuvering in international cartels. Business and Commercial Culture
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2012) Trading tin in an era of decolonization. Natural Resources and Government-Business Relations: Tin in the Global Economy
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål T. (2012) Controlling Unilever: Whale Oil, Margarine and Norwegian Economic Nationalism in the Interwar Years. Business History Seminar
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2012) When Business Systems Collide: Alcoa and the International Aluminium Cartel in the Interwar Period. Business History Conference 2012 Annual Meeting

2010

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Nybø, Andreas. (2010) A cartel is a cartel is a cartel... Suggestions for a taxonomy of cooperative capitalism. Conventional Wisdom Challenged: Economic Cooperation Reconsidered
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2010) Controlling Unilever; Whale Oil, Margarine and Norwegian Economic Nationalism 1930-31. European Business History Conference, Glasgow

2009

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2009) A Small State and International Cartels, The Case of Norway 1919-1939. XVth World Economic History Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2009) The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900-1940. XVth World Economic History Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Sandvik, Pål Thonstad; Storli, Espen. (2009) International Cartels and Small States. The Case of Norway. Det svenske ekonomisk-historiska mötet 2009
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2009) Staten og de internasjonale kartellene i mellomkrigstiden. Norske Historiedager

2008

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2008) The Cartel and the Communists: The Aluminium Industry and the Norwegian Export Guarantees, 1929-1935. 12th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2008) A Small State and International Cartels, The Case of Norway 1919-1939. Workshop on international cartels
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2008) Utenlandske investeringer i aluminiumindustrien: eksemplet Naco i mellomkrigstiden. Norske Historiedager 2008
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2008) Comment on session IIA: "International cartels" at EBHA annual conference. 12th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2008) The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900-1940. Global Economic History of Bauxite -preconference for the XVth World Economic History Conference

2007

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2007) How did international cartels and oligopolies shape the Norwegian aluminium and nickel industries?. 11th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2007) Norsk aluminiumsindustri 1908-1940: svingprodusenter i hendene til det internasjonale oligopolet?. HIFO-seminaret 2007
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2007) Maktkampen om A/S Høyangfaldene 1937. Generalforsamling i Norsk Økonomisk Historisk Forening

2006

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2006) The Norwegian aluminium industry 1908-1940. An overview. Comparative perspectives on the Norwegian and Canadian aluminium industries
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2006) The Norwegian Aluminium Industry and the International Cartel. Small Nation's Trade and Power Politics: The Nordic Interwar Experience
  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen; Sandvik, Pål Thonstad. (2006) Big business, market power and small nations. The Norwegian aluminium and nickel industry 1920-1939. XIV International Economic History Congress

2005

  • Conference lecture
    Storli, Espen. (2005) Hva ville egentlig Venstre med konsulatsaken i 1892?. Norske Historiedager

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