Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev
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
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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)
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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 |