Emil Lederer · 1916
Lederer’s brief review situates a statistical survey of animal raw materials within the wartime concern over resource supply:
Die wirtschaftliche Lage der Zentralstaaten im Weltkrieg hat die Ausrüstung des Vierbundes mit Rohstoffen in den Vordergrund des Interesses gerückt.
English translation: The economic situation of the Central Powers in the World War has brought the equipment of the Quadruple Alliance with raw materials into the foreground of interest.
He outlines the book’s geographical and industrial scope: using statistics for 1912, it surveys animal resources across the designated region between the North Sea and the Persian Gulf, then addresses processing for food, medicines, clothing, related industries, and waste utilization. This descriptive account leads to the review’s decisive distinction between documenting resources and establishing economic self-sufficiency:
Das Buch ist nicht eine Untersuchung, inwieweit Autarkie des angedeuteten Wirtschaftsgebietes möglich, sondern im Wesen eine Aneinanderreihung produktions- und handelsstatistischer Daten, welche durch einige technische Bemerkungen ergänzt werden.
English translation: The book is not an investigation of how far autarky of the economic area indicated is possible, but is in essence a stringing together of production and trade statistics, which are supplemented by a few technical remarks.
The review thus identifies the book’s value as a compilation while delimiting its explanatory reach. Wartime interest in autarky supplies the context, but production and trade figures, supplemented by technical observations, do not themselves constitute an inquiry into its feasibility.
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