NOTEBOOK “ε” (“EPSILON”)

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”.