Johann Karl Rodbertus

Johann Karl Rodbertus

Karl Johann Rodbertus (August 12, 1805 – December 6, 1875), also known as Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, was a German economist and socialist from Greifswald. He defended the labor theory of value (LTV) [G.D.H. Cole points out that Rodbertus defended this theory "not in its Marxian form, but in the form in which it had been advanced by earlier writers such as William Thompson and John Francis Bray, and echoed by Proudhon." See G.D.H. Cole's "History of Socialist Thought: Volume II Part II". London: Macmillan, 1960. p.21] as well as the view, as an inference from that, that interest or profit is theft.

Rodbertus was also known as "Rodbertus-Jagetzow" from the name of the estate of Jagetzow, in Pomerania, which he bought in 1835. Rodbertus was the son of a professor of law, and himself studied law at Göttingen and Berlin. From these studies he went on to Heidelberg, where he took up philosophy. He travelled extensively in Holland, France, and Switzerland before returning to settle down on his newly purchased estate (Jagetzow). [ibid, p.20]

Rodbertus stated the LTV as three connected propositions. First, only those goods that result from labor may be thought to be economic goods – other goods, like sunlight, which do not result from labor are natural goods and consequently have nothing to do with economics. Second, an economic good is solely the product of the labor – any other view of it is to be left to physicists. No part of the value of grain, for example, is to be attributed to sunshine or soil. Third, economic goods are products of the labor that went into their composition and the labor that created the instruments that enabled that production. The value of grain, for example, is not to be found merely in the ploughman but also in the work of those who manufactured the plough.

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk thought that Rodbertus' exposition of the exploitation theory was superior to that of Karl Marx in profundity and coherence. Nonetheless, he considered it fallacious, asking whether a nugget of gold that falls to earth embedded in a meteorite would fall outside the purview of economic science. Will someone effortlessly coming across that gold "protect it from the greed of others, prudently dispose of it on the market, in short, husband it with the same economy as he would in the case of gold and silver which he had acquired through the labor of his hands?"

See also

*Karl Marlo

References


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