Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan
Life and Work
- 1. Januar 1902
in Krakau - 28. April 1985
- Generation 4
Stations
- 1902Birth
Born in 1902 in Kraków, into a Jewish family.
- 1925Doctorate in Law
Earned his doctorate in law in Vienna and became an assistant to Hans Mayer. For racial reasons and reasons of faculty politics, he was not granted a Habilitation.
- 1927Article on marginal utility
At the age of twenty-five he wrote, for the fourth edition of the Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften, the much-noted article on the concept of marginal utility.
- 1929Contribution on the role of time in the economy
There followed an equally prominent contribution on the role of time in the economy. By demonstrating that the economic notion of an “equilibrium” did not adequately take account of the role of time, he set off an international debate.
- 1930Move to Great Britain
He left Vienna in 1930 and went to Great Britain – his initial teaching work at University College London.[4]
- 1931–1947Teaching post at University College London
In 1931 he received a teaching post at University College London and went on to establish himself as a highly regarded expert on developing countries.[4]
- 1943„Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe“
Publication of the pioneering article “Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” in the Economic Journal – the birth of the “Big Push” model of development economics.[3]
- 1947–1953Economic adviser, World Bank— approximate
Moved in 1947 to the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as an economic adviser for development economics.[4]
- 1953–1968Position at MIT
In his final years he was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[4]
- 1962Honorary Fellowship, ISS
Received an Honorary Fellowship from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague in 1962.[4]
- 1985Death
Died on 28 April 1985 in Boston.
Influences
- 1925
Received his doctorate in law in Vienna and became an assistant to Hans Mayer; for racial and faculty-political reasons he was not granted the Habilitation.
- —Ragnar Nurkse(1907–1959) · Entwicklungsökonomie
Wikipedia-EN-Infobox „Influences" listet Ragnar Nurkse – austriazistisch geschulter Entwicklungsökonom und Zeitgenosse, dessen „Balanced Growth"-Modell Rosenstein-Rodans „Big-Push"-Theorie beeinflusste.
- 1920–1930
Mises' Privatseminar-Liste (mises.org Hayek Centenary) führt Rosenstein-Rodan unter den regelmäßigen Teilnehmern; aktiv bis zur Übersiedlung nach Großbritannien 1930.[1]
- 1930–1938
Co-editor of the “Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie” with Oskar Morgenstern; joint dissemination of Austrian-economic ideas.[2]
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Beide Teilnehmer am Mises-Privatseminar in Wien (mises.org Hayek Centenary).[1]
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Wikiberal names Rosenstein-Rodan as a contemporary with similar methodological approaches in the Viennese milieu of mathematical economics.[5]
Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan in the context of the School as a whole: five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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- [3]Rosenstein-Rodan 1943: Problems of Industrialisation (Economic Journal)
Places of Activity
The Books
Essays, Reviews, Lectures
- APA
- Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan. (n.d.). Edited by mises.at and scholarium. Accessed July 21, 2026, from https://mises.at/en/denker/paul-narcyz-rosenstein-rodan
- Chicago
- “Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan.” n.d. Edited by mises.at and scholarium. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://mises.at/en/denker/paul-narcyz-rosenstein-rodan.
- German historical style
- Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan, edited by mises.at and scholarium, https://mises.at/en/denker/paul-narcyz-rosenstein-rodan (accessed July 21, 2026).