1916/ni-eps: FOREIGN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: ARNDT (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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FOREIGN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: ARNDT

Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (published by Bernhard Harms), Vol. 7, 1916, I.

“The Strength of French Capital”, by Professor Dr. Paul Arndt.

The author refers to his article “New Data on Capital Investments Abroad” (in Zeitschrift fur Sozialwissenschaft, 1915, pp. 311 and 456) and he quotes from it figures on capital invested abroad: (p. 35)

| | | | | | Riesser. p. 395 and p. 404) | | | | | | --------------------- | ------ | -------------- | -------------- | --------------------------- | | | | ---------------- | | | 000 million francs | | | | | | | | | | British | | £3,000 | million | | | | | 62 (1900 Speyer) | | | = | 75,000 | million francs | | | | | | | | French | | 60,000 | million francs | 30 (1902 Dehn) | | | | | | | = | 60 | ” ” | | | | | | | | German | | 35,000 | million marks | 31 (25,000 mill . marks) | | | | | | | = | 44,000 | million francs | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ((Σ=179)) | | | | | | | | |

France, one of the “economic Great Powers” (p. 37), holds fourth place after Britain, Germany and “North America”.

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