ARTICLE BY PAISH IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY, JANUARY 1911 (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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ARTICLE BY PAISH IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY, JANUARY 1911

British capital invested in Indian, colonial and foreign loans and companies, and the income derived therefrom in 1907-08 (Paish, p. 168):

My summary in three main groups:A, B, C Capital Income Percent
(£000) (idem)
A) Loans (government and muni-cipal) 757,460 29,938 3.9
B) Railways 1,198,991 52,839 4.4
C) { Banks, etc 366,022 21,870
Mines 243,386 26,145
Oil, etc. 127,879 8,999
C) 737,287 57,014 7.7
Total 2,693,738 139,791 5.2

Author divides table not into three (A, B, C), but into very many groups.

A) % = 3.2% 4.7%
B) = 3.8 4.7%
C) = 3.3 30.5%
1910 (£000)British Colonies
Africa
Canada andNewfound-land AustralianCommon-wealth NewZealand Total forAustralasia South West India andCeylon StraitsSettlementsand MalayStates Miscella-neous Britishpossessions (my) Σ
A) 92,948 198,365 64,721 263,086 115,080 8,541 182,517 7,943 6,969 677,084
B) 223,740 2,951 761 3,712 9,354 136,519 1,717 375,042
C) 503,026
Σ (*)373,541 301,521 78,529 380,050 351,368 29,498 365,399 22,037 33,259 (*)1,555,152
(*) Note: Paish’s total = 1,554,152, because for Canadahe gives 372,541 in the summary table (p. 186), but373,541 in the main table (p. 180).
United States Cuba Philippines Japan China Miscellaneous foreign countries
A) 7,896 2,282 42,784 22,477 818
B) 586,227 17,387 7,902 8,910 4,521
C) 93,955 3,031 300
Σ 688,078 22,700 8,202 53,705 26,809 61,907

| | Argentina | Mexico | Brazil | Chile | Uru-guay | Peru | Misc. American countries | | | ------------ | ------- | ------ | ------ | -------- | ------ | ------------------------ | ------ | | A) | 38,339 | 8,276 | 40,221 | 17,071 | 9,860 | 81 | 3,838 | | B) | 186,126 | 54,306 | 29,961 | 12,646 | 21,194 | 6,476 | 11,681 | | C) | | | | | | | | | Σ | 269,808 | 87,335 | 94,440 | 46,375 | 35,255 | 31,987 | 22,517 |

| | Russia | Turkey | Egypt | Spain | Italy | Portugal | France | Germany | Other Euro-pean coun-tries | Σ | but without Egypt | | | --------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | -------- | ------ | ------- | -------------------------- | ------ | ----------------- | ------- | | A) | 19,109 | 9,650 | 14,044 | 1,885 | 4,164 | 1,336 | — | 1,351 | 22,870 | 74,409 | 60,365 | | B) | 2,013 | 6,146 | 1,916 | 5,473 | 3,284 | 4,432 | — | — | 495 | 23,759 | 21,843 | | C) | 27,793 | 7,071 | | 90,199 | 62,408 | | | | | | | | Σ | 38,388 | 18,320 | 43,753 | 18,808 | 11,513 | 8,134 | 7,071 | 6,061 | 36,319 | 188,367 | 144,614 |

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. LXXIV, January 1911.

_Paish_’s article (and its discussion in the Statistical Society (article pp. 167-87; discussion, pp. 187-200)) shows that the author was very cautious and careful.

He excluded conversions—taking not nominal, but issue prices of securities—and to avoid duplication took income from securities, etc. The value of his data is therefore infinitely greater than that of the baseless “data” on France and Germany.

His main work relates to 1907-08.

£000,000
1907-08 1908-09 and 1910 1910
colonies: 1,312 + 228 1,554
foreign countries 1,381 + 288 1,637
Total 2,693 + 516 3,191


N.B. Alfred Neymarck, Modern Finances,Vols. VI and VII. French Savings andSecurities 1872-1910. 2 vols. 8°. Paris, 1911. N.B.


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