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SUMMARY:Keynes\, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company - Professor Bjørn
  L. Basberg\, Norwegian School of Economics\, Bergen
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well
  known. One company in which he bought stocks was the Hector Whaling Compa
 ny Ltd.\, London – a comparatively small and little known company founde
 d in 1928. The director of this company was Rupert Trouton. He had worked 
 with Keynes for the Government during World War I\, was his student at Cam
 bridge\, and became a close partner in the City from the 1920s and onwards
 . The reason why Keynes invested in Hector was obviously his relationship 
 to Rupert Trouton. \nThe first part of this paper explores the development
  of the Hector Whaling Company and its origins in Norway. The focus is on 
 the late 1920s and the 1930s\, when many other Norwegian whaling companies
  approached the financial market in the City.  The second part of the pape
 r analyses the relationship between Trouton and Keynes. The focus is on th
 eir co-operation relating Hector Whaling\, but their relationship regardin
 g various other businesses\, as well as on the personal level\, is also ex
 plored.\nThe paper is based on studies of the Keynes archives in Cambridge
  as well as newly available archives from the Hector company. The analysis
  provides new insights to the more general question on the motivations and
  decisions behind Keynes’ stock market investments as well as the intern
 ationalization of the whaling industry in the 1920s and 30s. \n
LOCATION:Darwin College (Seminar Room\, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance v
 ia Porters Lodge on Silver St)
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