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## Thomas-International Capital Movements to 1913 Heston, in a penetrating review of the whole subject, have shown that many difficulties still remain unsolved. 1 Given the primary data available, it is an open question whether a more accurate series can be attained. As we go back through the nineteenth century from 1870 the difficulties of statistical estimation becomes more numerous. An outstanding work on British capital exports in that period is that of Leland H. Jenks, whose profound researches threw a flood of light on the subject.z Basing himself on the work of Giffen, Newmarch and others, Jenks constructed a table of Great Britain's international accounts for the period 1854-80.3 The calculation indicated an aggregate net export of capital from 1854 to 1874 inclusive amounting to £332 million. Jenks paid particular attention to the problem of estimating the stock of British foreign investment at 1854, and came to the conclusion that Bowley's estimate of £550 million 4 was far too high ; he substituted for it a total of £195 to £235 million of British holdings of foreign publicly-issued securities. This was distributed as follows : s United States French, Belgian, Dutch and

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Author
John H Adler; Paul W Kuznets; International Economic Association; Round Table Conference on Capital Movements and Economic Development
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Published
1967
Language
EN
ISBN
9780333131930
Category
business
Subjects
Finance, Economics, Business
Updated
2026-03-25

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