Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “β”

(“BETA”)


BALLOD, STATISTICS

Professor Dr. Karl Ballod, Fundamentals of 
Statistics
, Berlin, 1913.
Ballod

A very good summary, apparently, of statistical data, the author being, above all, interested in statistics of production (quantity of products)—cf. Atlanticus!!—

Ballod believes that in Germany there are two iron
slaves
(machines) for each worker

§ “Technical Productive Power

Incomplete

Steam Water Elec
tricity
Germany (1907)
 8.8 mill. h.p. in industry
 (7.3 + 0.9 + 1.5) (steam)
machin-
ery
America (U.S.A.)
 16.0 mill. h.p. in industry
(14.2 + 1.8 + ?)
Britain (*) (1907)
 10.7 mill. h.p. in industry
Total + locomotives 13 mill. h.p. (1895)

Britain (*) Figures for Britain from Die Bank,
1913, p. 190—Board of Trade data. Results
of the “census of production” for industry
(all). Gross sale value = £ 1,765 million; cost
of raw materials = £ 1.028 million; further
processing = £ 25 million. Net value [1 —
— (2 + 3)] = £ 712 million. Number of work-
ers
= 6,985,000. Machinery = 10,755,000
h.p.
[+in agriculture, value = £ 196 mil-
lion; workers, 2.8 million]. Total capital (in
industry) = £ 1,500 million.

Amount of Water-Power

Million h.p.
Switzerland 1 1/2-3
Sweden + Norway 8 (about 28 million)
Finland 4-6 (p. 255)
Niagara 4-5 (only one-tenth used)
Congo waterfalls (Africa) 28
South America (??) 1-2

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