It is not the forecasting techniques that are dealt with in the paper. Those have already been thoroughly researched and are manifold. Whereas the quality of the forecast depends on the explanatory variables. Their identification is decisive of constructing forecasts of the highest probability...

In the paper, feasibility of a statistical theory, here called <i>numerics</i> (counting), being an expression of the Marxist notion of organic capital composition, was examined. To this end, the Laspeyres-Paasche theory of aggregation and construction of complex indices was presented for: a) two...

This article deals with the question: can there be a capitalist economy without unemployment? The authors answer is: the rate of unemployment can be higher or lower, but there is no capitalist way of management without the existence of unemployment. This is an immanent law of capitalism. It is...

When every day not only the average citizens, but also the political and intellectual elites of nations are concerned with current matters such as: the standard of living, income, the rates of the deposits and credits, difficulties in finding work and the growing unemployment, the budget deficit...

The object of considerations are here the methods of measurement of the average (mean) rate of growth, that is, the measure which expresses the dynamics of the process or phenomenon by one number. The commonly applied method of unweighted geometrical mean (rg ) takes into consideration only the...

The paper concerns the commonly used categories (concepts) in economics and statistics. Unfortunately they are not always used properly, and commonly outright improperly. The effect is misunderstandings, wrong interpretations and also in the general reception mistaken understanding and lack of...

The subject of this paper was presentation of the properties of the Method r, i.e. a method utilizing the sum of the terms of a real time series in calculating the average (mean) of the growth pace (rate). This property permits to use the Method r and its tables as substitute for the Least...

The elaboration considers one of the immanent features of the capitalist economy, i.e. incomplete employment, that is, unemployment. The author, in accordance with the views of Karl Marx, thinks there is no capitalist way of production without the existence of unemployment, the so-called reserve...