FOLIO I · DENKER
Born in 1902 in Kraków, into a Jewish family.
Earned his doctorate in law in Vienna and became an assistant to Hans Mayer. For racial reasons and reasons of faculty politics, he was not granted a Habilitation.
At the age of twenty-five he wrote, for the fourth edition of the Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften, the much-noted article on the concept of marginal utility.
There followed an equally prominent contribution on the role of time in the economy. By demonstrating that the economic notion of an “equilibrium” did not adequately take account of the role of time, he set off an international debate.
He left Vienna in 1930 and went to Great Britain — his initial teaching work at University College London.[3]
In 1931 he received a teaching post at University College London and went on to establish himself as a highly regarded expert on developing countries.[4]
Publication of the pioneering article “Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” in the Economic Journal — the birth of the “Big Push” model of development economics.[2]
Moved in 1947 to the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as an economic adviser for development economics.[4]
In his final years he was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[4]
Received an Honorary Fellowship from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague in 1962.[3]
Died on 28 April 1985 in Boston.
Received his doctorate in law in Vienna and became an assistant to Hans Mayer; for racial and faculty-political reasons he was not granted the Habilitation.
Wikipedia-EN-Infobox „Influences" listet Ragnar Nurkse — austriazistisch geschulter Entwicklungsökonom und Zeitgenosse, dessen „Balanced Growth"-Modell Rosenstein-Rodans „Big-Push"-Theorie beeinflusste.[3]
Mises' Privatseminar-Liste (mises.org Hayek Centenary) führt Rosenstein-Rodan unter den regelmäßigen Teilnehmern; aktiv bis zur Übersiedlung nach Großbritannien 1930.[1]
Co-editor of the “Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie” with Oskar Morgenstern; joint dissemination of Austrian-economic ideas.[3]
Beide Teilnehmer am Mises-Privatseminar in Wien (mises.org Hayek Centenary).[1]
Wikiberal names Rosenstein-Rodan as a contemporary with similar methodological approaches in the Viennese milieu of mathematical economics.[5]
Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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