Arthur Germanovich Raffalovich (born Odessa, 1853; died Paris, 1921) was a Russian financier and economist.

Life

Raffalovich was born in

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in 1853, the son of a wealthy Jewish merchant, Hermann Raffalovich, but the family moved to Paris when he was a child. Arthur lived most of his life in Paris, where he died on 24 December 1921. His brother,

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, was a poet and a writer on homosexuality, and his sister,

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, married and supported the Irish M.P.

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. He was at various times private secretary to Count

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, financial editor of the ''

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'', chairman of the Russian Chamber of Commerce in Paris, Commercial

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to the Russian Imperial Embassy in Paris, and the Russian state's financial agent in London.'' The Bankers' Magazine'' 69 (1904), p. 702. Under

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, he was a councillor of the

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. Raffalovich was a corresponding member of the

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Bibliography

Besides reviews in the ''

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'' and an annual overview of financial markets under the title ''Le marché financier'' (1893–1920), Raffalovich wrote or contributed to the following books and reports. *''Le logement de l'ouvrier et du pauvre''. 1887. *''Les Finances de la Russie, 1887-1889''. 1889. *'' A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations''. 1896. *''Mémoire sur la Conférence de La Haye''. 1899. *''Les crises commerciales et financières depuis 1889''. 1900. *''The State Monopoly of Spirits in Russia and its Influence on the Prosperity of the Population''. 1901. *''Trusts, Cartels et Syndicats''. Paris 1903, 2e. Ed. *''Le Système de banque en Angleterre''. 1911. *''Russia: Its Trade and Commerce''. 1918. *''La Détresse de la Russie: Ce que les Bolcheviks ont fait des finances publiques''. 1919. *''Le Problème financier russe: La dette publique de la Russie''. 1922.

References

1853 births 1921 deaths Russian economists Russian Jews Expatriates from the Russian Empire in France Russian non-fiction writers {{Russia-economist-stub