About the Author
About the Author W. S. WOYTINSKY has been one of the leading economists of the Western world for nearly four decades. Trained at St. Petersburg University before World Wai I, he worked in Berlin...
...Petersburg University before World Wai I, he worked in Berlin and Geneva before coming to the United States in 1935...
...While in Germany, he produced a seven-volume encyclopedia of statistics, The World in Figures...
...Here he has served the Federal Government (in various capacities) as well as several private research organizations and Johns Hopkins University...
...Liberated in the March 1917 democratic revolution, he served the moderate Provisional Government before Lenin's seizure of power and the independent Social Democratic Government of Georgia until its conquest by Lenin's forces in 1922...
...Woytinsky became research director of the Twentieth Century Fund and research professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University...
...Between 1935 and 1941, he worked with the committee on social security of the Social Science Research Council...
...With his wife, E. S. Woytinsky, he wrote World Population and Production and World Commerce and Government...
...Though at first he sympathized with the Bolshevik wing led by Lenin, he assumed an independent position before World War I. Imprisoned by the Tsarist Government in 1908, he wrote a highly influential novel on prison life, then spent nine years in Siberian exile...
...An economic writer in Berlin from 1922 to 1928, he was director of statistics for the German General Federation of Labor during the last five years of the Weimar Republic, then worked for a year with the International Labor Office in Geneva...
...An extended tour of South Asia led to a 1956 NEW LEADER series on "India: Awakening Giant,'' later published in book form by Harper's...
...An eight-month research and lecture tour of Latin America is responsible for this booklet...
...Among his books are Social Consequences of the Economic Depression, Labor in the United States, Three Aspects of Labor Dynamics, Earnings and Social Security in the United States, and Employment and Wages in the United States...
...Born in St...
...Petersburg in 1885, Woytinsky as a student became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor party...
...Woytinsky's U.S...
...Government service includes work with the Central Statistical Board (1934-35) and seven years as principal consulting economist to the Social Security Board (1941-1947...
...In 1947, Dr...
Vol. 41 • November 1958 • No. 43
