List members might like the refreshingly different perspective on this thinker's contribution to Marxist economics provided by: Porter, T. M. (1986). The rise of statistical thinking 1820-1900, Princeton: Princeton University Press On page 253 von B.'s essay is dismissed in a line as "rather turgid commentary on Marx" (I like the "rather" -- even the turgidness does not rise to greatness...) before Porter goes on to discuss Bortkiewicz's more interesting work on such things as the incidence of death from mule kicks among Prussian soldiers. Julian
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