Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “β”

(“BETA”)


SECURITY STATISTICS

“International Statistics of Securities and Stock
   Issues
” by Dr. Zimmermann, Bank Archiv,
   1912, July 1.


   Statistics of “transferable securities”, according to International Statistical Institute Bulletins (Alfred Ney-
   marck).

In francs (000 million francs)

January 1, 1897—446,300 million.

Janurary 1,
1897
Janurary 1,
1901
Janurary 1,
1907
(p. 302)
1897—
in-
exact
(p. 301)
1901
cor-
rected
 
 
 
 
 
 
Great Britain 182.6 — — 215 — — — 125-130


actu-
ally

existing
securities



Holland— —  13.6 — —  15
Belgium  6.1 — —  8
Germany  92.0 — —  80 — — — 60-75
Austria-Hungary  24.5 — —  30 — — — 20-22
Italy  17.5 — —  17 — — — 10-12
Rumania  1.2 — —   1.5
Norway  0.7 — —   1.0
Denmark— —  2.7 — —   2.2
France—  80.0 — — 135 — — — 95-100
Russia  25.4 — —  35 — — — 20-25
Spain — —  10
Switzerland— — — — — —  8
Sweden and others — — — —  5
Σ = 446.3 Σ = 562.7
United States of America . . . . . . 110-115
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Other countries . . . . . . 30-35
000 million
1897—446.3
1899—460
1901—562.7 (342.4)
1907—732 (475-514)
1911—815 (570-600)[4]

The figures in brackets = an attempt to deduct over lapping and repetitions (about 2/3 of the previous figure) (p. 301) (“securities actually existing in trade or in the possession of individual states”).

See p. 68 of this notebook.[1]

Totals
for entire five-year
periods:
(p. 317)
Issues
000 million
francs
Neymarck
Vol. XIX,
No II
p. 206








1871-75 —   45.0
1876-80 31.1
1881-85 24.1
  
1886-90 40.4 see pp. 68-69
here[2]
1891-95 40.4
1896-1900 60.0
1901-05 83.7
1906-10 114.1[3]

Notes

[1] See p. 147 of this volume.—Ed.

[2] See pp. 147-49 of this volume.—Ed.

[3] See present edition, Vol. 22, p. 239.—Ed.

[4] Lenin used these data in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (see present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 239-40). In the Notebooks the world total of securities, 815,000 million francs, is given for 1911, and in Imperialism, for 1910. Lenin took the figure from Zimmermann’s “International Statistics of Securities and Stock Issues”, which cites as its source a survey by Alfred Neymarck, who gives the figure as referring to January 1, 1911. p. 95

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