1st Edition

Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought A journey inside the Russian synthesis, 1890�1920

By François Allisson Copyright 2015
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores Russian synthesis that occurred in Russian economic thought between 1890 and 1920. This includes all the attempts at synthesis between classical political economy and marginalism; the labour theory of value and marginal utility; and value and prices. The various ways in which Russian economists have approached these issues have generally been addressed in a piecemeal fashion in... Read more

Introduction Part I. The Origins of the Russian synthesis Chapter 1. The prehistory of the Russian synthesis Chapter 2. Classical political economy in Russia Chapter 3. Marginalism in Russia Part II. The Russian synthesis Chapter 4. Tugan-Baranovsky on capitalism and socialism Chapter 5. Tugan-Baranovsky’s synthesis Chapter 6. The mathematicians’ syntheses Conclusion

Biography



François Allisson is a Lecturer in History of Economic Thought at the Centre Walras Pareto, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

"This high-quality book is devoted to the history of one theoretical concept that appeared in Russian economic science at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century...Allisson’s work is of high interest; this is a profound study based on detailed analyses of the Russian economic literature."

Irina Chaplygina and Mikhail Pokidchenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Journal of the History of Economics Thought