Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

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Identifikator:: 1896404200

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Title:: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1904-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896404294

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236881

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Title:: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

Volume count:: Bd. 2

Place of publication:: Leipzig [u.a.]

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: 1184 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Zivilrecht (Fortsetzung)

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168 INTERNATIONAL TRADE i 1 — HERI RIB dial are likely to offset each other — these offer the best possibilities for such comparisons; and it is for these that Mr. Flux worked out the results. First, pig iron. The output per person employed was 39 tons in Great Britain in 1907; it was 84.5 tons per person employed in the United States in 1909. That is, for each person employed the output was more than twice as great in the United States.? For steel products the difference was even greater. The output per head was 25 tons in Great Britain, 77 tons in the United States; nor was the difference any more to be explained in this case than in that of pig iron on the ground of discrepancy in the character of the article (heavy steel, say, against more finished forms). Some further figures on the steel industry of the two countries are suggestive. They relate to steel works of all kinds, and (I judge) do not cover precisely the same ground as those for “steel products” just given. They are stated in proportions; they show merely relations between conditions in the two countries. , PROPORTION OF UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN Total Tonnage 4 1 Numbers of workers 7 6 Horsepower per worker 103 51 i or Tho the number of workers in the United States is not markedly greater than in Great Britain, the tonnage produced is four times as great. But the equipment of the workers, as indicated by the horsepower of the machinery employed, is twice as great. No 1 Mr. Flux put his figures at my disposal in manuscript form many years ago (before the Great War), but was unwilling to publish them, tho urged to do so. He has most kindly permitted me to use them here. Some among them he has used in his paper on the Census of Production in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society for May, 1924. In that paper he has also made most interesting com- parisons between the pecuniary yield per workman in various British and American industries, and between the wages rates in the two countries. 2 These figures refer to manufacturing operations in the strict sense — to those included in accountants’ reckoning of conversion cost. They are the costs above ore, coal, limestone. Dr. Ballod, in the article in the Jahrbuch fiir Gesetzgebung already referred to, gives figures of pre-war product for the United States and Germany on a different basis, including all the labor for ore, coal, etc., as well as for labor at the furnace. He arrives at 295 tons per workman in Germany for 1906, 424 tons for Pennsylvania in 1900. I can not be sure of the comparability of these figures.

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