CARL BALLOD (KARLIS BALODIS): REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE

Abstract

The article shows the diffi cult path of fi nding approaches to the society of the future by Karl Ballod (Karlis Balodis), a well-known Russian, Latvian and German economist, demographer and statistician, professor at the Berlin and Latvian universities, later presented by him in his work “A look into the state of the future. Production and Consumption in a Welfare State”, put by the leaders of the young Soviet state as the basis of the GOELRO plan.