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Heinrich von Stackelberg, 1905-1946.

Russian-born German economist, pioneer of oligopoly theory. 

Stackelberg is most famous for his 1934 tract introducing a leader-follower strategic equilibrium modification in Cournot's model of duopoly. 

Stackelberg's 1933 ZfN critique of Cassel raised the prospect of the indeterminacy of the Walrasian system, and became a focus of discussion in the Vienna Colloquium.

Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg was a Baltic German, born in Kudinovo (the environs of Moscow). The family fled Russia after the October Revolution, eventually making their way to Germany. The Stackelbergs eventually settled in Cologne. Stackelberg completed his secondary studies there and eventually enrolled at the University of Cologne, where he was introduced to economics and mathematics by E. von Beckerath. He was already lecturing at Cologne by 1928, completing his doctorate in 1930.  His habilitation in 1934 contained his famous duopoly model. He came into contact with the Austrian School during brief a sojourn to Vienna in the early 1930s.

By several accounts, Heinrich von Stackelberg was a convinced National Socialist, having participated in active Nazi student groups while at Cologne, joined the NSDAP in 1931 and after their arrival to power in 1933, Stackelberg promptly enlisted in the notorious SS. 

In 1935, Stackelberg was appointed professor at the University of Berlin, and founded the mathematical economics journal, Archivs für mathematische Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung.  He would remain in Berlin for the next six years. In 1941, he moved to the University of Bonn.  But he did little teaching after this time, as Stackelberg was drafted into military service and spent long sojourns on the Russian front (mostly in an administrative capacity). Stackelberg's romance with the Nazis would apparently sour, and he gradually turned to the "Freiburg School" of Ordoliberalism (Eucken et al.).  His 1943 Grundzuge  was arguably the first German textbook containing modern Neoclassical theory.

In 1943, on leave from the Russian front, Stackelberg availed of a cultural exchange program became a visiting professor at the University of Madrid, Spain.  Stackelberg remained in Spain until his death in 1946.

 

  

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Major works of Heinrich von Stackelberg

  • Grundlagen einer Reiner Kostentheorie, 1932.  [English 2013 trans. Foundations of a Pure Cost Theory]
  • "Zwei kritische Bemergkungen zur Preistheorie Gustav Cassels", 1933, ZfN.
  • "Sulla teoria del duopolio e del polipolio", 1933, Rivista Italiana di Stat, Econ e Finanza.
  • Marktform und Gleichgewicht, 1934. [English 2010 trans. Market Structure of Equilibrium]
  • "Die grundlegenden Hypothesen der neueren Preisanalyse", 1935 Archiv f. math Wirtschaft-und-Sozialforschung.
  • "Der typische Fehlschluss in der Theorie der gleichgewichtslosen Marktformen: Ein Beirag zum Seinsgebundenheitsproblem der Wissenschaft", 1935, ZfGS
  • "Ragnar Frischs Neue Verfahre zur Messung des Grenznutzen", 1935, SchmJfGVV
  • "Neues Schriftum über unvollständigen Wettbewerb", 1935, SchmJGVV
  • "Produktivität und Rentabilität in der Volkswirtschaft", 1935, JNS
  • "Angebot und Nachfrage in der Produktionwirtschaft", 1938, Arch math Wirt-und-Sozialfg
  • "Probleme der unvollkommenen Konkurrenz", 1938, WWA.
  • "Beitrag zur Theorie des individuellen Sparens", 1938, ZfN
  • "Das Brechungsgesetz des Verkehrs", 1938, JNS
  • "Theorie der Vertriebspolitik und der Qualitätsvariation", 1939, SchmJGVV
  • "Preisdiskrimination bei willkürlicher Teilung des Marktes", 1939, Arch math Wirt-und-Sozialfg
  • "Die Stellung des Geldes in der Weltwirtschaft", 1939, Weltwirtschaft
  • "Zum Problem des internationalen Zahlungsmittels", 1939, Weltwirtschaft.
  • "Dur Grundlagen der Nationalökonmie: Bermerkungen zu dem gleighnamigen Buch von Walter Eucken", 1940, WWA.
  • "Stundenleistung and Tagesleistung", 1941 Arch math Wirt-und-Sozialfg.
  • "Kapital und Zins in der stationären Verkehrswirtschaft", 1941, ZfN
  • "Elemente einer dynamische Theorie des Kapitals (ein versuch), 1941, Arch math Wirt-und-Sozialfg.
  • "Das Gold in der Wehrwirtschaft", 1941, Nauticus.
  • "Der Weg der deutschen Währungspolitik", 1942, Uni. Bonn
  • "Probleme der deutschen Währungspolitik", 1942, Weltwirtschaft.
  • "Arbeitszeit und Volkswirtschaft", 1942-43 SchmJGVV.
  • "Hauptprobleme der Volkswirthschaftslehre", 1943, Geist der Zeit.
  • Grundzuge der Theoretischen Volkswirtschaftslehre, 1943  [English 1952 trans. The Theory of Market Economy]
  • "La ciencia y la practica de la Economia", 1944, Conferencia Facultad Madrid
  • "El cambio exterior en regimen de concurrencia perfecta", 1945, Revista de Economia Politica

 
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Resources of Heinrich von Stackelberg

  • "Stackelberg, Heinrich von", in Neue Deutsche Biographie
  • "Un economista contemporaneo: Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg", by Miguel Paredes, 1945, REP, [pdf]
  • "La théorie de Stackelberg : équilibre et politique économique" by Michel Hollard, 2000, Cahiers d'econ pol [pers]
  • "Heinrich von Stackelberg and Joint Production", by Setfan Baumgartner, 2001, EJHET [pdf]
  • "Heinrich von Stackelberg ant the diffusion of Ordoliberal ideas in Franco's Spain", 2012, HEI [pdf]
  • "Kampf um die Führung: Heinrich von Stackelberg: Grundzüge der theoretischen Volkswirtschaftslehre" by Dirk Ruschmann, Zeit Online [online]
  • "Review of 2013 trans. of Stackelberg's Grundlagen" by T. Tadzait, 2013, Oeconomie [online]
  • "Los trabajos publicados por el profesor H. von Stackelberg en España (1944-1946)" by R.Sanchez Lissen and M.T. Sanz Diaz, 2011 [doc]
  •  Wikipedia

 

 
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