Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky
Mykhailo Tuhan-Iwanowytsch Baranowskyj ( Ukrainian Михайло Іванович Туган-Барановський , Russian Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский / Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky ; born January 8 jul. / 20th January 1865 greg. In Kharkov Governorate , † 21st January 1919 near Odessa ) was a Ukrainian economist and historian. Originally a Marxist, Tugan-Baranowski later took revisionist positions and tried to combine Marxist ideas with approaches from the historical school and the marginal utility school . He is considered one of the leading economic theorists of so-called “ Legal Marxism ”.
life and work
Tuhan-Baranowskyj graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kharkov in 1888 and in 1894 earned a master's degree in political economy with the thesis The Industrial Crises in England Today . From 1895 to 1899 and from 1905 to 1913 he was a lecturer in political economy at the University of Petersburg . In the revolutionary period from 1905 to 1907 he joined the liberal constitutional democratic party (Kadetten), was proposed as its candidate for the Reich Duma in 1912 , but was not elected. After the October Revolution he was temporarily finance minister of the central government in Ukraine . From 1917 to 1919 Tugan-Baranowski was a professor at Kiev University and dean of its law faculty. Tugan-Baranowski was the first member of the Ukrainian Economic Society and in 1919 one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine .
Tugan-Baranowski became known through the thesis that unlimited accumulation is possible under capitalism . Production develops independently of consumption and there is no connection between crises and the so-called " realization problem ". The cause of the capitalist crises lies rather in the disproportionality and in the movement of loan capital .
Publications (selection)
The year in round brackets refers to the year of the first original edition.
- Michael Tugan-Baranovsky: Studies on the theory and history of the trade crises in England . Jena 1901 ( online ). (1894)
- History of the Russian factory , Berlin 1900 (1898)
- Theoretical Foundations of Marxism , Leipzig 1905 (1905)
- Michael Tugan-Baranovsky: Modern socialism in its historical development . Dresden 1908 ( online ). (1906)
- Social theory of distribution , Berlin 1913
- Michael Tugan-Baranovsky: The communist polities of modern times . Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1921 ( online [PDF]).
Web links
- Rosa Luxemburg : The "disproportionality" of Mr. Tugan-Baranowski , in: Rosa Luxemburg - Collected Works. Published by the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED. Volume 5. Berlin / GDR. 1975. "The accumulation of capital", pp. 263-275 (pdf; 1.3 MB)
- Nikolay Nenovsky : Place of Labor and Labor Theory in Tugan Baranovsky's Theoretical System , The Kyoto Economic Review, Vol. 78 (2009), No.1 pp.53-77 (pdf)
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the basic data of the life and thought of Tugan-Baranowski see: Goetz Heininger: Tugan-Baranowski, Michail Iwanowitsch , in: Werner Krause, Karl-Heinz Graupner, Rolf Sieber (ed.): Ökonomenlexikon . Berlin, Dietz 1989, pp. 578-580
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tugan-Baranowski, Michail Iwanowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Туган-Барановский, Михаил Иванович (Russian spelling); Туган-Барановський, Михайло Іванович (Ukrainian); Tuhan-Baranowskyj, Mychailo Iwanowytsch (transcribed in Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian economist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkov Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1919 |
| Place of death | near Odessa |