International trade

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Identifikator:: 1758394757

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136209

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Taussig, Frank William http://d-nb.info/gnd/120199459

Title:: International trade

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XXI, 425 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Problems of verification

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164 INTERNATIONAL TRADE United States the year has less working days for coal miners than in most countries. But this circumstance does not affect appre- ciably the comparisons. Put in terms of daily output per worker, we have: Tons oF CoAL Propuckp PER DAY PER UNDERGROUND WORKER 191 United States bituminous 4.01 anthracite 2.91 Great Britain 1.36 Prussia 1.29 Belgium 0.82 France 1.06 1914 128 78 25 .26 "76 nr 1918 M 0 3 1922 5.10 3.18 1.17 0.75 0.84 The explanation of the American effectiveness of labor in coal- mining is to be found partly in the human factors, partly in those of nature. The seams in the United States are thicker than in most countries, and in general are more accessible. But coal- cutting machines are used more widely than in other countries; and this, even when the comparison is made with countries having seams quite thick enough for machine mining. In the United States (1918), 56 per cent of the coal was machine-mined; in Nova Scotia (1916), 44 per cent; in New South Wales (1918), 25 per cent; in Great Britain (1918), 11 per cent. In the three last- named there is nothing in the quality of the seams which stands in the way of mining by machine. Similar in character is a comparison made by a well-known German economist * for another bulky and homogeneous com- modity — brick. The regions compared were Germany and the United States; and for the United States, the State of New York separately, as well as the country at large. In the United States, for the year 1905, the output of bricks per person employed was 141,000; for the State of New York alone, the output was 180,000. In Germany, for 1904, the output per head was only 40,000. The 1 First half of the year. K. Ballod, in the Jahrbuch fiir Gesetzgebung, 1910, p. 294.

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