Lenin: 1916/ni-beta: STILLICH AND WORLD ECONOMY (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “β”

(“BETA”)

STILLICH AND WORLD ECONOMY

A NOTE

Dr. Oskar Stillich, Economic Studies in Big Industrial Enterprise. Vol. I. The Iron and Steel Industry, Ber-
lin, 1904.

II. The Coal Industry, Leipzig, 1906.

On looking through these, it is evident that they are descriptions of individual big enterprises (technical, commercial, and in part of the position of the workers).

| Of the literature mentioned, note the referenceto J. German, “_The Qualifications of FactoryWorkers_”, in Die Neue Zeit, 21st year, Vol. II,No. 30. ((on the ousting of unskilled workers by machinesand the increasing role of skilled workers wheremachines are used)) | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | N.B. | |

_World Economy_—“A Yearbook and Textbook.” Published by Ernst von Halle.

Each volume consists of three parts: 1) International surveys; 2) Germany; 3) Other countries.

The surveys are worse than in Neumann-Spallart, for they are mostly without sum totals, giving only data by countries.

Fragmentary, incomplete, unsummarised. No data for different years (mostly none). Suitable, perhaps, for separate items of information.

| | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | There is absolutely none of the scientific approach,displayed in part by Calwer in his Introduction, to theanalysis of the connections of world economyas a whole; only statistical raw material. | | | | |