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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!!—

[[BOX ENDS: Ballod believes that in Germany there are two iron slaves (machines) for each worker ]]

§ “Technical Productive Power

Incomplete

Steam Water Electricity
Cermany (1907)
8.8 mill. h.p. in industry
(7.3 +0.9 +1.5) || (steam) machinery
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 workers = 6,985,000. Machinery = 10,755,000 h.p. [+in agriculture, value = £ 196 million; 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

Notes

  E. AGAHD, BIG BANKS AND THE WORLD MARKET | DIOURITCH, THE EXPANSION OF GERMAN BANKS ABROAD  

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