Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan - Baranovsky (Russian: Михаил Иванович Туган - Барановский; * January 8, 1865 in the province of Kharkov, † January 21, 1919 near Odessa) was a Russian economist and historian. Originally Marxist, represented Tugan - Baranowski later revisionist positions and tried to connect with Marxist ideology approaches the historical school and the marginal utility school. He is regarded as one of the leading economic theorists of the so -called " legals Marxism."

Life and work

Tugan - Baranovsky graduated 1888, the physico- mathematical faculty of the Kharkov University and earned a master's degree in 1894 with the political economy of labor The industrial crises in today's England. From 1895 to 1899, 1905 to 1913, he worked as 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 ( Cadets ), was proposed in 1912 as its candidate for the State Duma, but not selected. After the October Revolution he was temporarily finance ministers of the central government in Ukraine. From 1917 to 1919 Tugan - Baranowski was a professor at the Kiev University and dean of its law school. Tugan - Baranovsky 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 - Baranovsky was known by the thesis that capitalism in a limitless accumulation is possible. The production was developing independently from consumption and there is no connection between crises and the so-called " realization problem ". The cause of capitalist crises lies rather in the disproportionality and in the movement of loan capital.

Publications (selection )

The year in brackets refers to the year of the first original edition.

  • Studies on the theory and history of economic crises in England, Jena 1901 (1894)
  • History of the Russian factory, Berlin 1900 (1898)
  • Theoretical foundations of Marxism, Leipzig 1905 (1905)
  • Modern socialism in its historical development, Dresden 1908 (1906)
  • Social theory of distribution, Berlin 1913
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