ABSTRACT
Among various problems which must be solved by contemporary Russian statistics, that of representing in numbers the total turnover of economic life is perhaps the most interesting as well as the most complex. As a result of many years’ work by the Central Statistical Administration, the “Balance of the Economy of the USSR in 1923/24” has appeared. 1 The principal feature of this balance, in comparison with such economic-statistical investigations as the American and the English censuses, is the attempt to represent in numbers not only the production but also the distribution of the social product, so as to obtain a general picture of the entire process of reproduction in the form of a tableau économique (economic table).
