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Ole Colbjørnsen (1897-1973) was a Norwegian journalist, economist, and Labour Party politician. He is best known as the co-author of En norsk treårsplan and the pamphlet Hele folket i arbeid, whose title became the Labour Party slogan, earning him the description "Norway's first plan economist."
From 1921 Colbjørnsen worked at the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA), and from 1922 to 1928 he worked in trade and finance for the Soviet Union. He eventually took part in organizing and preparing the Soviet first five-year plan.
Writing in the Labour Party's newspaper Arbeiderbladet from autumn 1932, Colbjørnsen promoted ideas drawn from John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge. Together with Axel Sømme, he helped shift the party's focus from redistribution to production, and made working within the framework of the state politically acceptable for the labour movement.
Hele folket i arbeid is a pamphlet Colbjørnsen wrote in 1933 that put forward economic reform proposals. Its title, meaning roughly "the whole people at work," was adopted as the Norwegian Labour Party's slogan.
Yes. In the late 1930s Colbjørnsen repeatedly nominated Mahatma Gandhi for the Nobel Peace Prize. Gandhi was never awarded the prize.
Colbjørnsen left Norway when the country was occupied in 1940 and worked at the Norwegian embassy in Washington, D.C. In 1946 and 1947 he served as a delegate and then advisor in the United Nations General Assembly, and in 1947 he also participated in the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He returned to Norway in November 1948 as acting director of the Direktoratet for økonomisk forsvarsberedskap and became a supporter of Norwegian NATO membership.