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The Zurich Association for Economic History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Paul J. Meier
Paul J. Meier
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
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Extract

The Zurich Association for study in Economic History was founded in 1950 by various trade associations, businessmen, and historians. At the time, Swiss postwar prosperity stimulated considerable discussion of the distribution of wealth and many responsible groups felt further government interference in this matter was probable but unwelcome. Founders of the Association hoped to “regain territory for the idea of private enterprise,” by giving an historical dimension to economic affairs.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , Summer 1962 , pp. 205 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1962

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2 Ibid., p. 7.

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9 Ibid., p. 9.