Ladislaus Von Bortkiewicz

Ladislaus Von Bortkiewicz, 1868-1931
économiste et statisticien russe d'origine polonaise

Biographie

Although a friend of Leon Walras and an eminent advocate of mathematical economics, the Russian-born Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz nonetheless could be said to be a "Classical" economist of the Ricardian vein. It is in his work on Karl Marx - whom he simply saw as one descendant of Ricardo - that his claim to fame lies. Bortkiewicz's solution to the Marx's "Transformation Problem" (1907) is considered legendary, although it was ignored at the time. Bortkiewicz was also involved in other theoretical controversies - particularly against Böhm-Bawerk and the Austrian theory of interest and also against the Alfred Weber's theory of industrial location.

Although he taught in Berlin most of his life, Bortkiewicz was nonetheless opposed to the German Historical School and was more sympathetic to the mathematical efforts of the Lausanne School.

Major works of Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz

"Review of Léon Walras, Éléments d'économie politique pure, 2e édit.", 1890, Revue d'économie politique (also PDF version)
"Wertrechnung und Presirechnung im Marxschen System", 1907, Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik.
"On the Correction of Marx's Fundamental Theoretical Construction in the Third Volume of Capital."
Die Iterationen, 1917
"Value and Price in the Marxian System", 1952, IEP.

Resources on Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

"La Théorie mathématique de l'offre et de la demande et le coût de production", by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 1891, Revue d'économie politique (rejoinder to Bortkiewicz's 1890 critique)

Source: http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/bortk.htm. [EN LIGNE] Consulté le 1er juin 2008.