ECONOMIST

Johann Karl Rodbertus

1805 - 1875

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Johann Karl Rodbertus (August 12, 1805, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania – December 6, 1875, in Jagetzow), also known as Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, was a German economist and socialist and a leading member of the Linkes Zentrum (centre-left) in the Prussian national assembly. He defended the labor theory of value, as well as the view, which it implied, of interest or profit being theft. He believed that capitalist economies tend toward overproduction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Karl Rodbertus has received more than 47,194 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Karl Rodbertus is the 236th most popular economist (down from 227th in 2019), the 3,484th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,089th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Johann Karl Rodbertus ranks 236 out of 414. Before him are Leopold von Wiese, Harold Innis, Fritz Machlup, Philip H. Dybvig, Ellen Swallow Richards, and Eugen Slutsky. After him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Roy Harrod, Mahbub ul Haq, Étienne Laspeyres, Arthur Melvin Okun, and Hernando de Soto Polar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Johann Karl Rodbertus ranks 42. Before him are Malek Jahan Khanom, Alexander Braun, Prosper Guéranger, Mastoureh Ardalan, Gabriel Bibron, and John Lloyd Stephens. After him are Anton von Schmerling, Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, and Kuriakose Elias Chavara. Among people deceased in 1875, Johann Karl Rodbertus ranks 50. Before him are Charles Kingsley, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, John C. Breckinridge, Prosper Guéranger, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, and Petrache Poenaru. After him are Robert von Mohl, Richard Christopher Carrington, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Charles Grandison Finney, Mikhail Pogodin, and Atanasio Aguirre.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Karl Rodbertus ranks 3,484 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Hans Meyer (1858), Siegfried Rauch (1932), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), and Franz Tunder (1614). After him are Edzard I, Count of East Frisia (1462), Werner Peter (1950), Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576), Friedrich Dickel (1913), Carl Humann (1839), and Herman Grimm (1828).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Johann Karl Rodbertus ranks 25. Before him are Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Adam Müller (1779), and Albert O. Hirschman (1915). After him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), and Andreas Kaplan (1977).

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