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Economics & Business
Rudolf Hilferding
Who
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
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Economist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists
