Boris Brutskus

Boris Brutskus
BornPalanga (Russian EmpireEdit this on Wikidata
Died7 December 1938 Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
  • Institute of Agriculture and Forestry Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationEconomist, statistician, agriculturist Edit this on Wikidata

Boris (Ber) Davydovich Brutskus (Russian: Борис (Бер) Давыдович Бруцкус, Hebrew: בוריס (בר/דּוֹב) בֶּן־דָּוִד ברוצקוס, German: Boris Brutzkus; October 15/October 3 (Russian information), 1874 – December 6/December 7 (same with birthdate), 1938) was an economist from the Russian Empire.

Brutskus was born in Polangen/Palanga in Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire. His brother was the historian and politician Julius Brutzkus.

Brutskus published an English translation for Economic Planning in Soviet Russia with an introduction by Friedrich Hayek in 1935.[1]

He was forced into exile by the Bolshevik government in 1922.[2]

He died in 1938 in Jerusalem.

  1. ^ Brutzkus, Boris (1935). Economic Planning in Soviet Russia. Translated by Gardiner, Gilbert. London: George Routledge & Sons – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Boris Brutskus Biography