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Etienne Laspeyres

(Ernst Louis) Etienne Laspeyres (Halle an der Saale, November 28, 1834August 4, 1913) was Professor ordinarius of Economics and Statistics or State Sciences and cameralistics in Basel, Riga, Dorpat, Karlsruhe and finally for 26 years in Giessen. Laspeyres was the scion of a Huguenot family of originally Portuguese descent which had settled in Berlin in the 17th century, which has confused pronunciation of his name to this day. He himself (probably) pronounced it as if it were German, which comes close to the Portuguese sound (Lass-pay-ress).

Laspeyres is mainly known today for the index number formula for determining the price increase which he developed in 1871, and which is used until this day, usually in the form of the Laspeyres-Paasche Index. Other than that, he may count as a father of business administration as an academic-professional discipline in Germany, and as one of the main unifiers of economics and statistics by "developing ideas which are today by and large nationally and internationally reality: quantification and operationalization of economics; expansion of official statistics; cooperation of official statistics and economic research; and integration of the economist and the statistician in one person." (Rinne 1983) In economics, Laspeyres was to some extent a representative of the Historical School and certainly of Kathedersozialismus .

Bibliography

Books by Laspeyres:

  • Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Volksvermehrung und Höhe des Arbeitslohns, 1860
  • Geschichte der Volkswirtschäftlichen Anschauungen der Niederländer und ihrer Literatur zur Zeit der Republik, 1863
  • Der Einfluss der Wohnung auf die Sittlichkeit, 1869

Articles by Laspyres:

  • Mitteilungen aus Pieter de la Courts Schriften. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der niederländischen Nationalökonomik des 17. Jahrhunderts in "Zeitschrift für die gesammte Staatswissenschaft", 1862
  • Hamburger Warenpreise 1851-1860 und die kalifornisch-australische Geldentdeckung seit 1848. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Geldentwertung in "Jahrbücher für Nationalœkonomie und Statistik", 1884
  • Die Berechnung einer mittleren Warenpreissteigerung in "Jahrbücher für Nationalœkonomie und Statistik", 1871
  • Welche Waren werden im Verlaufe der Zeiten immer teurer? – Statistische Studien zur Geschichte der Preisen in "Zeitschrift für die gesammte Staatswissenschaft", 1872
  • Statistische Untersuchungungen über die wirtschaftliche und sociale Lage der sogenannte arbeitenden Klassen in "Concordia Zeitschrift für die Arbeiterfrage", 1875
  • Die Kathedersocialisten und die statistischen Congresse. Gedanken zur Begründung einer nationalœkonomischen Statistik und einer statistischen Nationalœkonomie in "Deutsche Zeit- und Streit-Fragen", 1875
  • Zur wirtschaftlichen Lage der ländlichen Arbeiter im deutschen Reich in "Zeitschrift für die gesammte Staatswissenschaft", 1876
  • Preise (Die Bewegungen der Warenpreise in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts), voce nell'enciclopedia "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon", 1883
  • Statistischen Untersuchungen zur Frage der Steuerüberwälzung in "Finanz-Archiv", 1901
  • Einzelpreise und Durchschnittspreise vegetalischer und animalischer Produkte in Preussen während der 75 Jahre 1821 bis 1895 in "Zeitschrift, Prussia, Statistisches Bureau", 1901

About Laspeyres:

  • Drechsler, Wolfgang (2000). "Etienne Laspeyres' History of the Economic Thought of the Netherlanders: A Law & Economics Classic?" European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 10, no. 3 (November), pp. 235-242.
  • Rinne, Horst (1981). "Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres, 1834 – 1913." Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, vol. 196, pp. 194-215.
  • Rinne, Horst (1983). Étienne [Laspeyres]. In Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 13. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 660-661.

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