Statistični letopis SR Slovenije 1964.Review by: Toussaint HočevarSlavic Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jun., 1966), p. 369Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2492814 .

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case that Lobachevskii the philosopher knew not what Lobachevskii the mathe- matician was doing, or is it the case that most philosophies of mathematics are at variance with the actual process of mathematical discovery? This sort of problem is very far from the history of Russian culture, but it can hardly be avoided if one tries to place a mathematical genius in the context of a national culture.

Vucinich's book is not likely to fire the interest of intellectual historians in the important but neglected problems that he struggles with, nor is it likely that his solutions will be generally accepted as definitive. But readers who give this in- formative book the close study it deserves will be provoked to further inquiry and argument. There are the seeds of at least a dozen good doctoral dissertations in Vucinich's book.

Russian Research Center DAVID JORAVSKY Harvard University

Statisticni letopis SR Slovenije I964. Ljubljana: Zavod za statistiko SR Slovenije, 1964. Pages 567. 2500 dinars.

Those engaged in various fields of research dealing with Yugoslavia will welcome the reappearance of the Statistical Yearbook of Slovenia, which had not beeni published since 1955, for it includes data not to be found in the Statistical Year- book of Yugoslavia and yet indispensable for the study of this highly heterogeneous country. A special section in which data from Slovenia are compared with those for Yugoslavia and the other federal republics adds to the usefulness of the book.

Though there is a wealth of data on population, national income, various in- dustries, and public services, the area of public finance is given comparatively scant coverage. For example, the absence of data on federal taxes collected in Slovenia makes extremely difficult any attempt at calculating the redistribution of income be- tween it and the federation, although a substantial transfer of income to non- Slovenian regions can be inferred from data on national income, investment, and personal income.

The most distinctive feature of Slovenia is that 96 percent of its population of i,6oo,ooo are of Slovenian nationality, while the remaining federal republics ac- count for fewer than 70,000 Slovenes. With only 31 percent of its population in agriculture (Yugoslavia, 51 percent) and with a per capita contribution to the na- tional income which in 1962 exceeded the Yugoslav average by 93 percent, Slovenia is economically the most developed of the six republics. In fact, expressed in 1960 prices the per capita national income in 1962 exceeded the federal average by loo percent, indicating that price policies introduced since 1960 have had an adverse ef- fect on Slovenia. Because of low birth rate, the rate of natural increase per thousand of population (8.8 in 1963) lags behind all other republics except Croatia (7.5). This is in sharp contrast to the natural increase of 21.4 per thousand in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The statistics on migration across republican borders reflect, on the otne hand, population pressure from the southeastern regions of Yugoslavia and, on the other, the exodus of Slovenes to Germany, Switzerland, and other high-wage countries.

Since many data in this yearbook are given for every year between 1954 and 1963, continuity with the 1955 Yearbook has been maintained. As for the future, publica- tion on a yearly basis would be desirable.

Ketuka College TOUSSAINT HO0EVAR

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