Arghiri emmanuel biography
Arghiri Emmanuel was a Greek, naturalized French, Marxian economist who became known in the s and s for his theory of 'unequal exchange'....
Emmanuel – a man of the 20th century.
Arghiri Emmanuel
French economist
Arghiri Emmanuel (Greek: Αργύρης Εμμανουήλ; June 7, 1911 – December 14, 2001) was a Greek, naturalized French, Marxian economist who became known in the 1960s and 1970s for his theory of 'unequal exchange'.
Biography
Emmanuel was born in Patras, Greece, the son of Charalambos Emmanuel and Katina (born Menounou). He studied at the Supreme School of Economic Commercial Sciences (today the Athens University of Economics and Business) from 1927 to 1932 and then at the School of Law of Athens University until 1934, from where he went on to work in commerce in Athens until 1937.
While his later works clearly identify him as a Marxist or communist of sorts, it is still uncertain when and under which circumstances he began considering himself as such. Publishing articles at least from 1928, an interest in Marxist philosophy is evidenced in a 1937 article on 'psychoanalysis as a global theory and dialectical materialism', and yet another o
