ABSTRACT
This chapter is an added starter, written in the summer of 1986 at the World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER), an institute established in Helsinki in 1985 by the United Nations University, where I served as a visiting scholar. I was invited to do my own research, and after completing two assignments I had brought with me, thought it would be interesting to take advantage of the opportunity to pursue the thought touched on on page 192 and in note 90 of the previous chapter, that payment of reparations out of current production might build up the economy of the paying country, with Finland cited as an apposite example. Later when I was asked to give a seminar at WIDER, I offered as possible topics the two papers I had been working on and, as an afterthought, the subject of Finnish war reparations. WIDER chose the last, I wrote the paper under some time pressure, made the mistake of arming the other participants in advance of the seminar by circulating it then. I was bombarded by suggestions for emendation, extension, and alteration. Luckily many of these offerings contradicted one another and could be ignored.
