The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence
马克思走向主流：俄国革命对其学术影响力的作用
Karl Marx’s high academic stature outside of economics diverges sharply from his peripheral influence within the discipline, particularly after nineteenth-century developments rendered the labor theory of value obsolete. We hypothesize that the 1917 Russian Revolution is responsible for elevating Marx into the academic mainstream. Using the synthetic control method, we construct a counterfactual for Marx’s citation patterns in Google Ngram data. This allows us to predict how…