Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “β”

(“BETA”)


MEHRENS, FRENCH BANKS

Bernhard Mehrens, The Origin and Development of the
   Big French Credit Institutions
, Berlin and Stuttgart,
   1911. (Munich Economic Studies, Brentano and Lotz;
   No. 107.)

p. 311: French capital in securities (the same figures from Neymarck, as also in Kaufmann; see preceding page of this notebook).[1]

000 million
francs
N.B. 1850— 9 Annual accumulation of capital in France—about
1,500-2,000 million francs
according to Neymarck (pp. 311-12),—but
as much as 2,500-3,000 million
according to Leroy-Beaulieu (p. 312, note).
1869— 33
1880— 56
1890— 74
1902— 90
1906— 100

Total value of bills
in France
⎧

⎨
⎩
in 1908 the Banque de
France had 21.5 million
bills valued at 12,300 million
francs, p. 263
⎫

⎬
⎭
1881— 27.2 thousand mill. fr.
1890— 25.2 (p. 211)
1900— 28.9
1907— 35.9

Capital Reserves
(million francs)
1892— 250+ 69.5 This is the capital and reserves of four
banks: Crédit Lyonnais, Comptoir National,
Société Générale + Crédit
Industriel (p. 240).
1900— 500+ 144.7
1908— 575+ 216.2
in four banks

Notes

[1] See pp. 142-44 of this volume.—Ed.

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