Farmand was established in 1891. During the
German occupation of Norway from 1940 until 1945, Hoff was put in jail for his political views. During that time,
Farmand was banned by the Nazi occupation powers. Kåre Varvin edited
Farmand from 1982 to 1983, then Ole Jacob Hoff from 1983 to the end in 1989. In 1986 the magazine was sold to Cappelen, a publishing company.
Farmand was a conservative magazine and supported the
classical liberalism and
free market which was much inspired by
The Economist.
Farmand enjoyed such prominent columnists as
Milton Friedman,
F. A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises as well as many economists, intellectuals, and business leaders from the early Mont Pelerin Society. Before
World War II Norway began to ban the anti-Nazi movies of American and British origin. Hoff protested over the
censorship of these movies. The contents also included current (and inside-track) reports from
East Bloc countries, not the least being the crushing of the
Prague Spring in 1968. There were also literary excerpts, among them those from
Constantine Fitzgibbon's dystopian romance during a communist takeover of England,
When the Kissing Had to Stop. One of the attractions was a page of quotations with its popular naughty jokes featured in the lower right-hand corner.
Farmand sold 33,800 copies in 1981 and 33,900 copies in 1982.{{cite journal|author=Per Langhoff|title=The effects of change of filters == See also ==