Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev

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Vladimir Karpovich Dmitrijew ( Russian Владимир Карпович Дмитриев ; born November 24, 1868 in Smolensk ; † November 30, 1913 ) was the first Russian economist to use mathematical methods.

After studying medicine and political economy in Moscow , he began to work as a tax officer in the small town of Vonkovits in the Podolia governorate in 1896 , until tuberculosis forced him to give up this activity in 1899.

His economic essays, published between 1898 and 1902, are classic texts of economic literature. They immediately received a lot of attention from some experts such as AI Chuprow, P. Struwe and NN Shaposhnikow as well as Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch , but fell into oblivion after 1919 and were only rediscovered in the 1960s and published and introduced in English by DM Nuti in 1974.

Dmitrijew anticipated a number of theorems and techniques that count as part of economic theory today, from input-output analysis to the correct determination of labor values ​​and production prices, including the "non-substitution theorem" of Paul Samuelson and some of Sraffa's sentences on pricing and distribution. He developed an extremely original competition theory , which could be characterized as "perfect competition in present markets".

Dmitrijew aimed for a theoretical synthesis between labor theory and marginal utility theory . He was probably the first who did not stop at the definition of “value” as “objectified work” and formulated a system of equations for calculating work values. Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch used this system in his work on the transformation problem.

literature

  • VK Dmitriev: Economic Essays on Value, Competition and Utility . Translated by D. Fry and edited with an Introduction by Domenico Mario Nuti. Cambridge University Press 1974. ISBN 0-521-20253-1 .
  • Vladimir K. Dmitriev: David Ricardo's Theory of Value. Attempt a rigorous analysis. In: Bertram Schefold, (Hrsg.): Economic classic in transition. Theoretical essays by David Ricardo, Alfred Marshall, Vladimir K. Dmitriev and Piero Sraffa. Suhrkamp pocket book science 627. Frankfurt / Main 1986. ISBN 3-518-28227-1 . Pp. 63-136.
  • Michalis Skourtos: The 'Neoricardianism'. VK Dmitriev and continuity in the classical tradition. Pfaffenweiler 1985.
  • Frank Schütte: The economic studies VK Dmitrievs. A contribution to the interpretation and theoretical-historical appreciation with special consideration of Russian economics. Diss. Rer. pole. Chemnitz University of Technology 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dmitrijew, Vladimir Karpowitsch: A Biographical Note . In: Dmitrijew, Wladimir Karpowitsch (Ed.): Economic Essays on Value, Competition and Utility . Cambridge University Press , London 1974, ISBN 0-521-20253-1 , pp. 29-32 .
  2. ^ DM Nuti: Introduction . In: VK Dmitriev: Economic Essays on Value, Competition and Utility . Translated by D. Fry and edited with an Introduction by Domenico Mario Nuti. Cambridge University Press 1974. ISBN 0-521-20253-1 . P. 7.
  3. ↑ Biographical Appendix. In: Bertram Schefold, (Hrsg.): Economic classic in transition. Theoretical essays by David Ricardo, Alfred Marshall, Vladimir K. Dmitriev and Piero Sraffa. Suhrkamp pocket book science 627. Frankfurt / Main 1986. ISBN 3-518-28227-1 .
  4. ↑ Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Value calculation and price calculation in the Marx system (2) . In: Archives for Social Science and Social Policy . tape 25 , no. 1 , 1907, p. 10–51 ( file: Bortkiewicz.1907a.pdf [PDF]). Here: p. 34, note 33. - Part (1) , part (3)
personal data
SURNAME Dmitriev, Vladimir Karpovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian economist who stood out with the application of mathematical methods
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Smolensk
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1913