Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky Михайло Іванович Туган-Барановський
Secretary of Finance
In office August 13, 1917 – November 20, 1917
Preceded by	Khrystofor Baranovsky
Succeeded by	Vasyl Mazurenko
Personal details
Born	(1865-01-20)January 20, 1865 village of Solonom, Kharkov Governorate
Died	January 21, 1919(1919-01-21) (aged 54) Odessa, Ukraine
Nationality	Tatar
Political party	Cadet (until 1917), UPSF
Alma mater	Kharkiv University
Occupation	academician, statesman, public activist

Monument to Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovsky (near Donetsk Commercial University)

Mykhailo Ivanovych Tuhan-Baranovsky (1865, Kharkov Governorate - 1919, Odessa) is a noted Russian-Ukrainian economist of Russian ethnicity, a tutor of Mykola Kondratyev, the famous Russian economist credited with the presentation of the hypothesis of the long waves in capitalist development. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 1899. He is the author of numerous works concerning the value theory, the distribution of a social revenue, history of managerial development, and fundamentals of cooperative managerial activities.

Early Life

He was born in the village of Solonom, Kharkov Governorate in a szlachta family. His father's genealogical line descends from Tatar settlers in the XIV century Lithuania (full name - Tuhan-Mirze-Baranovsky), his mother was an ethnic Ukrainian from the Poltava region. Mykhailo graduated from the Natural-Mathematical and Law-Economics Departments of Kharkiv University, supplementing his studies in England (1892). His first scientific work he published in the journnal Yuridicheskiy Vestnik (Jurisprudence Informer), The study of a marginal utility of consumer goods as the reason for their value (Uchenie o predel'noi poleznosti khoziaystvennykh blag kak prichina ikh tsennosti), in which he spoke critically of the labor theory of value and the marginal utility. He also wrote several biographical notes on lives of Proudhon and D.S.Mill. For his publication The Industrial crises in contemporary England, their reasons and influence on public life Tuhan-Baranovsky received the title of Magister in Political Economics from Moscow State University in 1894. In 1895 he became a member of the Free Economical Association, of which he became the chairman in 1896. There he was an active participant of the forum discussions between Narodniks and Marxists. Along with Peter Struve he became a supporter of so-called legal Marxism. Since 1895 Tuhan-Baranovsky was privat-dotsent (unremunerated lecturer) in Political Economics at Saint Petersburg State University, from where he was fired in 1899 for liberal views. During this time there his work The Russian Factory in Past and Present appeared, for which in 1898 he received the doctorate from Moscow State University.

Interest in Neokantianism

In 1901-1905 Turan-Baranovsky participated in the public life of the Poltava region where he joined the local zemstvo. Later he returned to Saint-Petersburg, lecturing as private docent and as professor in the economics departments of various local polytechnic and commercial institutes and also at the private university of Shaniavsky in Moscow. During the early years of the XX century he completely moved away from the popular views of legal Marxism towards the neokantianism that is reflected in his various works regarding the cooperative movement. In 1901-1902 Tuhan-Baranovsky published his "Notes from the History of Political Economics" in the journal Narodnoe Bagatstvo (National Wealth), where he described the history of economics doctrines in the Russian Empire, and "Notes of the Newest History in Political Economics" (1903). This work was translated into German in 1915. Later he published various other works in Russian and German as well. In 1919 his first publication in Ukrainian appeared, Cooperation, its nature and goals. Other works continued to appear up until 1923. Since 1906 he was the chief editor of Vestnik Kooperatsii (Cooperative Digest). Before World War I he worked, along with Mykhailo Hrushevsky and other Ukrainian academicians, on the encyclopedia Ukrainsky narod v ego proshlom i nastoyaschem (Ukrainian people in their past and present).

Mikhaylo Tugan-Baranovsky was one of the founders of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, as well as the Secretary of Finance of the Ukrainian Peoples Republic. His major work is Thee Russian Factory in Past and Present (1898).

References

• Michaelides, P., Milios, J. and Vouldis, A. (2007), Emil Lederer and the Schumpeter, Hilferding, Tugan-Baranowsky Nexus, Research Workshop in Political Economy, International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy, organized by : University of London and University of Crete, Rethymnon, 14-16 September.
• Michaelides, P., Milios, J. and Vouldis, A. (2007), Schumpeter and Lederer on Economic Growth, Technology and Credit, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference, Porto, 2007, 1-3 November (CD-ROM).
• Michaelides, P., Milios, J. and Vouldis, A. (2007), Schumpeter, Lederer and Hilferding, on Economic Development, Credit and Business Cycles, 9th International Conference of Greek Historians of Economic Thought, University of Macedonia, 11-12 May.
• Diel К. Dr. Michael Tugan-Baranowskys theoretische Grundlagen des Marxismus. Jahrbücher fur Nationalökonomie und Statistik, vol. XXXI (Dr. T.-B., theoretical fundamentalist of Marxism. Yearbook for the National Economy and Statistics). Jena 1906;
• Bernstein E. Tugan-Baranowsky als Sozialist. Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, vol. XXVIII (T.-B. as Socialist. Archive for Social Science and Social Politics) 1909;
• Дмитриев В. Новый русский трактат по теории политической экономии. Русская Мысль, book XI. 1909;
• Курский Л. Теория рынка и промышленных кризисовъ М. И. Туган-Барановскаго. М. 1916;
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• Gotz W. Zum ökonomischen System Tugan-Baranowsky. Riga 1930;
• Wytanowicz E. M. I. Tuhan-Baranowski: teoretyk-ekonomista, historyk kapitalizmu, socjolog, twórca teoretycznych podstaw idei spółdzielczej. Roczniki dziejów społecznych і gospodarczych, vol. І. Л. 1931;
• Мицюк О. Наукова діяльність політико-економіста М. І. Туган-Барановського. Л. 1931;
• Moisseev M. L'évolution d'une doctrine. La theorie des crises de Tougan-Baranoysky et la conception moderne des crises économiques. Revue d'histoire économique et sociale. vol. XX. Paris 1932;
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