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A Remedy for the Country, § 1

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§ 1

So many learned works have been published recently about the decline of our finances and the means of restoring them that it would at first glance seem superfluous to publish anything further on this topic.

However, as our situation has unfortunately not yet improved, although the salvation or ruin of the entire country chiefly depends on it, I assume that my worthy fellow countrymen will not refuse to give their attention to this publication.

I may indeed have had one or two things printed previously, but until now I have never acted as a project-maker1 and have certainly not taken up the pen on my own behalf, but for the sake of the distress of the community at large.

Whether the proposal is appropriate or not, of that I will let you, dear reader,

be the first and then posterity to provide the most impartial verdict.

One always finds faults in proposals made by others but not so easily in one’s own. Those of others appear to us sometimes to be costly, sometimes unfeasible, occasionally self-interested and at other times difficult to understand and rather strange.

The more simply one can present a matter, the better. I shall try to make the truth visible without glasses and therefore first describe the correct and simple basis for a system of finance, next show the source from which the confusion among us arises, then briefly examine the main proposals offered by others and, finally and fourth, present my own proposal to the reader.


  1. a project-maker: Chydenius uses the Swedish term project-makare, often used disparagingly of persons making proposals for new laws, which shows that he was well aware of how delicate the issue was. See the Commentary.

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