Jennings & Finlay på marknaden för öregrundsjärn : och besläktade studier i frihetstida storföretagande och storfinans

(Jennings & Finlay in the market for Oreground iron exports and related studies in large scale entrepreneurship and banking in the Age of Freedom.)

The overall theme of this study is the attempt by the largest export company in Sweden in the 1750s to more or less monopolise exports from Sweden of the high quality Oreground iron which was in great demand. Three related studies in central and frequently debated problem areas in economic history are linked to this theme:

1) The relationship between iron works and their factors, in this case the commercial links between the large export company and one of Sweden's largest producers of iron, Antoine De Geer (ADG), who ran two large Walloon works at Österby and Forsmark and about whom little has been written.

2) The development of J&F's very large iron works conglomerate and the related long-term iron contracts with ADG and his brothers Louis and Charles, who was the largest manufacturer in the iron industry, as well as the dissolution of the conglomerate.

3) The loans from the Bank of Sweden taken by J&F with their iron works as security, which made the company the bank's largest private borrower and the development of the credit burden amassed by J&F and other major borrowers in the Bank of Sweden.