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Sweden in 1850 as an “Impoverished Sophisticate”: Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Charles P. Kindleberger
Charles P. Kindleberger
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Ford International Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 918 - 920
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1982

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2 Sandberg, “Case of Impoverished Sophisticate,” p. 232: “Sweden's relatively very sophisticated system of financial institutions, in 1850 or 1870, meant … This stock of knowledge about and general acceptance of modern financial institutions and procedures greatly facilitated their rapid expansion during the period of speed economy growth after 1850.”Google Scholar

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5 Ibid., p. 247.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid., p. 249.

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