Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maria Natanovna Smith-Falkner was a Soviet economist and statistician of Jewish origin, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1939 onwards. She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, having joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. Smith-Falkner's research was focused on the issues of political economy of capitalism and socialism, statistics, etc. Her scientific interests were: economics of capitalism and socialism, statistics theory, the status of the working class in the Western countries, etc.