Leo Rogin

Leo Rogin (1893, Mohilev, Belarus – 1947, Berkeley, CA, USA) was an American economist, economic historian and historian of economic thought.

Major publications

• "The Introduction of Farm Machinery in its Relation to the Productivity of Labor in the Agriculture of the United States During the 19th Century", 1931.
• "Werner Sombart and the 'Natural Science Method' in Economics", JPE, 1933.
• "American Economic Thought", AER, 1933.
• "The New Deal: A Survey of the Literature", QJE, 1935.
• "Davenport on the Economics of Alfred Marshall", AER, 1936.
• "The Significance of Marxian Economics for Current Trends of Government Policy", AER, 1938.
• "Werner Sombart and Transcendentalism", AER, 1941.
• "Marx and Engels on Distribution in a Socialist Society", AER, 1945.
• "The Meaning and Validity of Economic Theory: A Historical Approach", 1956.

Secondary sources

• Blaug, Mark (1962, 1st ed.) Economic Theory in Retrospect.
• Hutchison, Terence W. (1978) - On Revolutions and Progress in Economic Knowledge.

External links

• 1947, University of California: In Memoriam.
• Where Galbraith's Ideas Come From, Speech delivered by Richard Parker at The Galbraith International Symposium Paris, France, September 22-25, 2004
• Douglass C. North's Autobiography on Nobelprize.org