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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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