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Rudolf Hilferding

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Rudolf Hilferding · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1877, Vienna, Austria — 1941, Paris, France

Where

Austria · Germany · France

Biography

Rudolf Hilferding is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist and Social Democratic politician whose 1910 work 'Finance Capital' analysed the fusion of banking and industrial capital, deeply influencing later theories of imperialism. He twice served as Germany's finance minister. A Jew, he fled Nazi Germany but was seized in occupied France and died in Gestapo custody in Paris.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists