157: François Allisson on Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought

François Allisson is a scholar in history of economic thought and a senior lecturer at the Centre Walras-Pareto at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

His research interests encompass the whole history of Russian economic thought, with a special emphasis on the theories of value and prices at the end of the imperial period and the beginning of the Soviet era ( which covers the years from the 1870s to the 1920s).

Francois’s interests int the theories of value, distribution, money, crises, accumulation of capital and planning lead him to study various schools of economic thought and classical political economy as well as Marxism, and marginalism.

His book Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought was awarded the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) Best Book Award in 2016.

Francois is now engaged in a collective project intending towards an intellectual biography of Nikolay Ivanovich Sieber (1844–1888), a Swiss and Russian economist

His teaching activities include a course on the history of contemporary economic thought, which covers the history of macroeconomics since Keynes’s General Theory, in both mainstream and heterodox traditions.

Francois was recently elected Vice-President of the International Walras Association. Among other activities, he is General Secretary of the Association Charles Gide (the French association for history of economic thought) and a Managing Editor of Œconomia.

Talk about economic thought during the 1890s to 1920s and the Russian economists of the time.

About the classical theory of pricing based on the value of labour and how that has changed since the preferred neoclassical marginal revolution in pricing theory that we know of today.

Links:

• François Allisson website
• International Walras Association
• Association Charles Gide
• Œconomia
•  Centre Walras-Pareto
•  University of Lausanne

Books:

• Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought: A journey inside the Russian synthesis, 1890–1920 by François Allisson
• Economics and Other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree: Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel by Roberto Baranzini and François Allisson

• Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov

• Journey of My Brother Alexsey to the Land of Peasant Utopia by Alexander Chayanov

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