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Monetary Policy and Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sweden: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Lars G. Sandberg
Affiliation:
Ohio State University

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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1970

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References

1 Eagly, Robert V., “Monetary Policy and Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sweden,” The Journal of Economic History, XXIX (Dec. 1969), 739–57CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 This is not the standard ordering of the estates. The official order of precedence listed them as nobles, clergy, burghers, and peasants.

3 For an example in English, see Roberts, Michael, Essays in Swedish History (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967), p. 272Google Scholar. For a more detailed analysis of politics and political institutions, see Carlsson, Sten, Svensk Historia II, Tiden efter 1718 (Stockholm: Svenska Bokförlaget, 1961)Google Scholar. This book is the standard Swedish university text on Swedish history.

4 Roberts, Swedish History, p. 280.

5 Carlsson, Svensk Historia II, p. 104.

7 Ibid., p. 98. After 1739 this committee virtually picked the Council. In that year only seventeen persons were nominated for eleven positions. Certainly the King did not have much choice.

8 Ibid., p. 109.