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Advertising joins business technique to psychological influence: this is Schwiedland’s starting point in his brief English-language review of the third enlarged edition of Victor Mataja’s Die Reklame. Noting advertising’s expanding political uses, he commends Mataja’s scientific approach and impartial assessment of its forms and effects. The interest lies in what Schwiedland singles out for approval: an inquiry that considers advertising’s educational and enlightening potential alongside its economic results. This compact endorsement shows the criteria by which he welcomes advertising as a subject of systematic study, without offering specific findings or a developed critique.
Rising profits can conceal shrinking wealth. In this brief English-language review of Julius Wolf’s 1920 study, Eugen Peter Schwiedland foregrounds the unequal losses behind Germany’s currency depreciation: wages trail prices, salaries lag further, and bondholders’ nominal incomes remain unchanged. His largely expository account connects these contrasts to Wolf’s diagnosis of a government unable to align expenditure with revenue. The central tension is between apparent industrial prosperity and the continuing monetary expansion that undermines purchasing power and unsettles trade. Read as a contemporary assessment rather than a retrospective explanation, the review shows how Wolf’s forecast of further depreciation rested on political constraints on spending cuts, not simply on the quantity of banknotes.