Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ξ”

(“XI”)


HELFFERICH, NATIONAL WELFARE IN GERMANY

Dr. Karl Helfferich (head of the Deutsche Bank), National Welfare in Germany 1888-1913, Berlin, 1913.

A panegyric.... An official eulogy

Unimportant, adulation

Germany’s national income is about 40,000 million marks per annum, as against 22,000-25,000 million in 1895; out of the 40, about seven go for public purposes, about 25 for private consumption, and about eight for accumulation = 40 (p. 123). Germany’s national wealth > 300,000 million (1) marks per annum as against 200,000 million in 1895.

p. 114       (000,000,000
marks)
per capita
(marks)
German national wealth = 290-320 4,500-4,900
French 232.5 5,924
(287,000 million (7,314 francs)
francs)
British 230-260 5,100-5,800
U.S. 500 5,500


(pp. 99-100)
1908
(000,000,000
marks)
per capita
(marks)
German national income 35 555
French 20 514
British 35 815


(p. 61) Coal output
(million tons)
Pig-iron output
(thousand tons)
1886 1911 +% 1887 1911 +%
U.S.A.   103.1  450.2  +336.6  6,520  24,028 368.5[1]
Great Britain 160.0 276.2 + 72.6 7,681 10,033 30.6  
Germany   73.7  234.5  +218.1  4,024  15,574 387.0[1]
Russia 612 3,588 486.3  
Austria-Hungary 20.8 49.2 +136.5
France   19.9  39.3  + 97.5  1,568  4,411 281.3[1]
Belgium 17.3 23.1 + 33.5 756 2,106 178.6  

(1) Including 20,000 million marks of capital invested abroad (p. 113).


Notes

[1] So given by Helfferich.—Ed.


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