Peter B. Struve as Economist: Philosophical Foundations of Economics and Development Theory
Résumé
Peter Struve (1870–1844) was a prominent Russian economist, social scholar and politician. The chapter presents his achievements in the field of methodology and theory of economics, as well as Struve's influence on the development of economic thought, especially in the Balkans. We consistently present Struve's concept of economic development, the fundamental philosophical concepts of economic reasoning (here Struve is compared to Karl Pribram and Othmar Spann) and his contributions in the field of monetary analysis, where he puts money and prices at the centre of his theoretical model, emphasising the crucial role of statistics and accounting.