Christian Gehrke
Biographic Data
| ID | 323632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Gehrke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gehrke |
| SIGNATURE | GEHRKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2244-8845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
George Grote’s manuscript essay on “Foreign trade”
This paper explains the origin, content and importance of a manuscript essay on “Foreign trade” which George Grote, the historian of Greece, submitted to David Ricardo in March 1819. By relating it to the contributions to foreign trade theory of Ricardo and of James and John Stuart Mill it is shown that Grote anticipated important elements of the “Sraffa-Yukizawa-Parrinello interpretation” of Ricardo’s cloth-and-wine example. By suggesting that c…
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz
On the ‘Origins’ of Sraffa’s Production Equations
In this rejoinder to de Vivo’s comment on Gehrke and Kurz (2018, ‘Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work, and Marx.’ Review of Political Economy) we first ask what could possibly be meant by seeking to identify the ‘origins’ of Sraffa’s production equations. We then show that in his comment de Vivo has abandoned his original view, according to which the magnitudes in Sraffa’s ‘first equations’ are to be interpreted in Marxian (labour) value …
Sraffa’s Constructive and Interpretive Work, and Marx
This article provides a summary account of Piero Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work on the classical approach to the theory of value and distribution and its relationship with Marx’s contributions. It is shown that in the early phase of his constructive work Sraffa developed his equation systems by adopting a ‘physical real cost’ approach and a strictly objectivist point of view, and completely eschewed Marx’s labour-based approach and t…
Skilling and deskilling
This article reviews and brings together two literatures: classical political economists’ views on the skilling or deskilling nature of technological change in England, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when they wrote, are compared with the empirical evidence about the skill effects of technological change that emerges from studies of economic historians. In both literatures, we look at both the skill impacts of technological change…
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Erik Lindahl (1891–1960)
Robert Torrens (c. 1780–1864)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Formalizing “external economies”
The paper traces the developments in the formal treatment of “external economies” from the seminal contribution of Jacob Viner via John Chipman’s introduction of the concept of “parametric external economies” through to Paul Krugman’s modelling of external economies in his contributions to development, geography, and trade. The main focus is on clarifying the existing relationships between the different conceptualizations. It is first shown that …
Sraffa and Modern Economics, Volume I
Sraffa and Modern Economics Volume II
The Joint Production Method in the Treatment of Fixed Capital
This paper re-examines P. Sraffa's ‘References to the literature’ in Appendix D of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960) on precursors of the joint production method in the treatment of fixed capital. It is shown that Moseley's view, according to which Sraffa's attribution of the joint production method to Torrens, Ricardo, Malthus and Marx is ‘misleading at best and totally wrong at worst…
Karl Marx (1818–1883)
Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz
Research Article| March 01 2006 Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz: Reconstructing the Classical Theory of Value and Distribution Christian Gehrke; Christian Gehrke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Heinz D. Kurz Heinz D. Kurz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (1): 91–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-38-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sea…
Bringing the edition of Ricardo's works to completion
The paper documents the gestation of the General Index to Piero Sraffa's edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. The available documents suggest that Sraffa made every effort to bring the editorial task he had been entrusted with to completion without sacrificing his standards of precision. They also show that he had good reasons for rejecting earlier versions of the General Index
On the Transition from Long-period to Short-period Equilibria
The paper examines the contributions of Myrdal, Lindahl, Hicks and Hayek that initiated the transition from the traditional long-period method to the methods of 'intertemporal' and 'temporary equilibria' in neoclassical general equilibrium analyses. It is shown that in the early contributions the idea of a tendency towards a long-period position was not completely abandoned, and that the new 'dynamic' equilibrium concepts were conceived by some o…
Ricardo on Agricultural Improvements
This note discusses the numerical examples of land saving and capital saving agricultural improvements Ricardo provided in the chapter on the rent of land in the Principles. Especially his illustration of the second kind of improvements met with fierce criticism. It is argued that Ricardo was not wrong in any substantive sense and that he could only be criticized for having changed the definition of rent as regards the timing of its payment from …
The Ricardo Effect
This paper is concerned with the meaning and validity of the ‘Ricardo effect’. It is shown that the machinery substitution effect contemplated by David Ricardo (a) is not caused by a rise in the real wage rate, (b) is independent of the so‐called ‘price effect’, and (c) presupposes very special assumptions about the available set of production methods. The paper also investigates whether Ricardo's machinery substitution argument anticipates the p…
Keynes and Sraffa's 'Difficulties with J. H. Hollander'
The paper reports on Jacob H. Hollander's cooperation with John Maynard Keynes and Piero Sraffa in the preparation of the latter's edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. The report is based on archive material from various sources, including the unpublished papers of Edwin Cannan, Piero Sraffa, Jacob H. Hollander, John Maynard Keynes, and Jacob Viner, and the archive of the Royal Economic Society. The archive material consulted…
Say and Ricardo on value and distribution
The paper discusses the differences between the theories of value and distribution of Jean-Baptiste Say and David Ricardo. The attention focuses on fundamental issues in controversy between them. These are Say's confounding of 'value', 'riches' and 'utility', the theory of value, the problem of the measure of value, and the distinction between net and gross revenue; and the theory of income distribution, especially the explanation of rents and of…
Alfred Kahler's Die Theorie der Arbeiterfreisetzung durch die Maschine
This paper provides a critical assessment of Alfred Kahler's pioneering contribution to the analysis of the impact of automation on workers in his 1932 dissertation thesis Die Theorie der Arbeiterfreisetzung durch die Maschine (The theory of the displacement of the worker by the machine). Kahler's analysis is shown to be an elaboration on Ricardo's and Marx's approach to the analysis of the labour displacement and compensation process. It is also…
Karl Marx on physiocracy
The paper discusses Marx's views on physiocracy. In his attempt to ‘excavate’ the roots of ‘classical’ political economy, Marx saw that the physiocrats had anticipated the analytical structure of the classical theory of value and distribution from Adam Smith to Ricardo, centred around the concept of surplus product. Marx also discerned, or so he thought, elements of a material-based and a labour-based explanation of value in the physiocrats. Ques…
Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz
Research Article| March 01 2006 Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz: Reconstructing the Classical Theory of Value and Distribution Christian Gehrke; Christian Gehrke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Heinz D. Kurz Heinz D. Kurz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (1): 91–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-38-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sea…
Skilling and deskilling
This article reviews and brings together two literatures: classical political economists’ views on the skilling or deskilling nature of technological change in England, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when they wrote, are compared with the empirical evidence about the skill effects of technological change that emerges from studies of economic historians. In both literatures, we look at both the skill impacts of technological change…
Sraffa’s Constructive and Interpretive Work, and Marx
This article provides a summary account of Piero Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work on the classical approach to the theory of value and distribution and its relationship with Marx’s contributions. It is shown that in the early phase of his constructive work Sraffa developed his equation systems by adopting a ‘physical real cost’ approach and a strictly objectivist point of view, and completely eschewed Marx’s labour-based approach and t…
On the ‘Origins’ of Sraffa’s Production Equations
In this rejoinder to de Vivo’s comment on Gehrke and Kurz (2018, ‘Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work, and Marx.’ Review of Political Economy) we first ask what could possibly be meant by seeking to identify the ‘origins’ of Sraffa’s production equations. We then show that in his comment de Vivo has abandoned his original view, according to which the magnitudes in Sraffa’s ‘first equations’ are to be interpreted in Marxian (labour) value …
The Joint Production Method in the Treatment of Fixed Capital
This paper re-examines P. Sraffa's ‘References to the literature’ in Appendix D of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960) on precursors of the joint production method in the treatment of fixed capital. It is shown that Moseley's view, according to which Sraffa's attribution of the joint production method to Torrens, Ricardo, Malthus and Marx is ‘misleading at best and totally wrong at worst…
Karl Marx on physiocracy
The paper discusses Marx's views on physiocracy. In his attempt to ‘excavate’ the roots of ‘classical’ political economy, Marx saw that the physiocrats had anticipated the analytical structure of the classical theory of value and distribution from Adam Smith to Ricardo, centred around the concept of surplus product. Marx also discerned, or so he thought, elements of a material-based and a labour-based explanation of value in the physiocrats. Ques…
Alfred Kahler's Die Theorie der Arbeiterfreisetzung durch die Maschine
This paper provides a critical assessment of Alfred Kahler's pioneering contribution to the analysis of the impact of automation on workers in his 1932 dissertation thesis Die Theorie der Arbeiterfreisetzung durch die Maschine (The theory of the displacement of the worker by the machine). Kahler's analysis is shown to be an elaboration on Ricardo's and Marx's approach to the analysis of the labour displacement and compensation process. It is also…
Say and Ricardo on value and distribution
The paper discusses the differences between the theories of value and distribution of Jean-Baptiste Say and David Ricardo. The attention focuses on fundamental issues in controversy between them. These are Say's confounding of 'value', 'riches' and 'utility', the theory of value, the problem of the measure of value, and the distinction between net and gross revenue; and the theory of income distribution, especially the explanation of rents and of…
Keynes and Sraffa's 'Difficulties with J. H. Hollander'
The paper reports on Jacob H. Hollander's cooperation with John Maynard Keynes and Piero Sraffa in the preparation of the latter's edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. The report is based on archive material from various sources, including the unpublished papers of Edwin Cannan, Piero Sraffa, Jacob H. Hollander, John Maynard Keynes, and Jacob Viner, and the archive of the Royal Economic Society. The archive material consulted…
On the Transition from Long-period to Short-period Equilibria
The paper examines the contributions of Myrdal, Lindahl, Hicks and Hayek that initiated the transition from the traditional long-period method to the methods of 'intertemporal' and 'temporary equilibria' in neoclassical general equilibrium analyses. It is shown that in the early contributions the idea of a tendency towards a long-period position was not completely abandoned, and that the new 'dynamic' equilibrium concepts were conceived by some o…
Ricardo on Agricultural Improvements
This note discusses the numerical examples of land saving and capital saving agricultural improvements Ricardo provided in the chapter on the rent of land in the Principles. Especially his illustration of the second kind of improvements met with fierce criticism. It is argued that Ricardo was not wrong in any substantive sense and that he could only be criticized for having changed the definition of rent as regards the timing of its payment from …
The Ricardo Effect
This paper is concerned with the meaning and validity of the ‘Ricardo effect’. It is shown that the machinery substitution effect contemplated by David Ricardo (a) is not caused by a rise in the real wage rate, (b) is independent of the so‐called ‘price effect’, and (c) presupposes very special assumptions about the available set of production methods. The paper also investigates whether Ricardo's machinery substitution argument anticipates the p…
Bringing the edition of Ricardo's works to completion
The paper documents the gestation of the General Index to Piero Sraffa's edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. The available documents suggest that Sraffa made every effort to bring the editorial task he had been entrusted with to completion without sacrificing his standards of precision. They also show that he had good reasons for rejecting earlier versions of the General Index
Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz
Research Article| March 01 2006 Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz: Reconstructing the Classical Theory of Value and Distribution Christian Gehrke; Christian Gehrke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Heinz D. Kurz Heinz D. Kurz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (1): 91–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-38-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sea…
Karl Marx (1818–1883)
The Joint Production Method in the Treatment of Fixed Capital
This paper re-examines P. Sraffa's ‘References to the literature’ in Appendix D of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960) on precursors of the joint production method in the treatment of fixed capital. It is shown that Moseley's view, according to which Sraffa's attribution of the joint production method to Torrens, Ricardo, Malthus and Marx is ‘misleading at best and totally wrong at worst…
Sraffa and Modern Economics Volume II
Sraffa and Modern Economics, Volume I
Formalizing “external economies”
The paper traces the developments in the formal treatment of “external economies” from the seminal contribution of Jacob Viner via John Chipman’s introduction of the concept of “parametric external economies” through to Paul Krugman’s modelling of external economies in his contributions to development, geography, and trade. The main focus is on clarifying the existing relationships between the different conceptualizations. It is first shown that …
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Erik Lindahl (1891–1960)
Robert Torrens (c. 1780–1864)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Sraffa’s Constructive and Interpretive Work, and Marx
This article provides a summary account of Piero Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work on the classical approach to the theory of value and distribution and its relationship with Marx’s contributions. It is shown that in the early phase of his constructive work Sraffa developed his equation systems by adopting a ‘physical real cost’ approach and a strictly objectivist point of view, and completely eschewed Marx’s labour-based approach and t…
Skilling and deskilling
This article reviews and brings together two literatures: classical political economists’ views on the skilling or deskilling nature of technological change in England, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when they wrote, are compared with the empirical evidence about the skill effects of technological change that emerges from studies of economic historians. In both literatures, we look at both the skill impacts of technological change…
On the ‘Origins’ of Sraffa’s Production Equations
In this rejoinder to de Vivo’s comment on Gehrke and Kurz (2018, ‘Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work, and Marx.’ Review of Political Economy) we first ask what could possibly be meant by seeking to identify the ‘origins’ of Sraffa’s production equations. We then show that in his comment de Vivo has abandoned his original view, according to which the magnitudes in Sraffa’s ‘first equations’ are to be interpreted in Marxian (labour) value …
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz
George Grote’s manuscript essay on “Foreign trade”
This paper explains the origin, content and importance of a manuscript essay on “Foreign trade” which George Grote, the historian of Greece, submitted to David Ricardo in March 1819. By relating it to the contributions to foreign trade theory of Ricardo and of James and John Stuart Mill it is shown that Grote anticipated important elements of the “Sraffa-Yukizawa-Parrinello interpretation” of Ricardo’s cloth-and-wine example. By suggesting that c…
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