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CALWER, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD ECONOMY [1]

Richard Calwer, An Introduction to the World Economy (Vol. 30 of the Maier-Rothschild Library ),
1906 (3 marks).

An interesting attempt to summarise the data (about 1900 ) “ On the Principal Economic Regions of the World ”(I try to summarise them in a table):

| | Merchant shipping | Telegraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ⋕ PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC REGIONS OF THE WORLD | Area (mill- on sq. km. | Population (million) | Population per sq. km. | Railways (000 km.) | Ships (000) | Net ton- nage (mill.) | Lines (000 km.) | Tele- grams (mill.) | Foreign trade (imports and exports) (1900) ( thous. mill . marks) | Coal output (1900) (mill. tons) | pig iron output (mill. tons) | Gold output (1900) (000 kg.) | No. of cotton spindles (1900) (mill.) | No. of sheep (mill.) | Wool output (mill. kg.) |
| Central European | 27.6 | 388.4 | 14.05 | 203.8 | 41.2 | 7.9 | 520.2 | 168.9 | 40.9 | 250.8 | 14.6 | 8.2 | 26.0 | 89.1 | 214.4 |
| | (23.6) | (146.1) |
| British | 28.9 | 398.0 | 13.75 | 140.3 | 35.3 | 11.1 | 313.3 | 121 | 24.8 | 249.4 | 9.4 | 279.9 | 51.2 | 158.5 | 447.0 |
| | (28.6) | (355.4) |
| Russian | 22.2 | 130.8 | 5.9 | 63.2 | 5.6 | 1.0 | 171.8 | 20 | 3.3 | 16.1 | 2.9 | 36.0 | 7.0 | 62.4 | 191.1 |
| |
| East Asian | 12.4 | 389.4 | 31.4 | 8.2 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 60.7 | 17 | 2.4 | 8.3 | 0.02 | 12.4 | 1.8 | { 1) 175 | 59.0} |
| |
| American | 30.3 | 148.5 | 4.9 | 378.9 | 25.7 | 6.0 | 526.8 | 79 | 13.9 | 245.6 | 14.0 | 131.6 | 19.5 | 143.5 | 438.1 |
| | —— | ——— | —— | ——— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | ——— | —— | ——— | ——— | ——— | ——— |
| Σ = | 121.4 | 1,455.3 | 12 | 794.4 | 113.0 | 26.9 | | | 85.3 | 770.2 | 40.9 | 468.1 | 105.5 | 628.5 | 1,349.6 |
| “Not counted” | 14.6(approx.)70 | | 22.3 | | 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.7 |
| | —— | ——— | | ——— | | —— | ——— | —— | ——— |
| | —— | ——— | | ——— | | —— | ——— | —— | ——— |
| Whole world | 136 | 1,525 | | 816.7 | | 87.8 | 770.3 | 41.4 | 470.8 |

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| | 1911 | |
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| | Germany | 10.4 | 149.8 | 234.5 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Great Brit- ain | | 5.3 | 228.8 | 276.2 |
| U.S.A. | 9.2 | 244.6 | 450.2 |
| | —— | ——— | —— |
| | —— |
| | 34.9 | 623.2 | 960.9 |
| | | = 81 % |

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| ⋕ Figures in brackets refer to colonies | 1) “Other countries of the world” (i.e., East Asian plus the remainder). |

R. Calwer lists colonial possessions as follows ( p . 90 ):

Author includes in the “Central European region” all Europe except Great Britain and Russia.

“Not counted”, i.e., not apportioned to the regions, include Afghanistan, Persia , Arabia , in Africa Abyssinia, Morocco (the author is out of date!!! the book was published in 1906!!!), and others.

Railway development for these five regions, 1890 and
1913 (main figures given later [2] ):

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Notes:
[1] See present edition, Vol. 22, p. 272.— Ed .

[2] See pp. 484-90 of this volume. Ed .

[3] The data on coal output in 1911 were taken by Lenin from “International Surveys”, table 19, in Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich , 1915, p. 33.