ABSTRACT
Basile Samsonoff is a minor member of the Lausanne School of Economics, author of a dissertation entitled ‘Esquisse d’une théorie générale de la rente’ (1912). 1 He was one of three students, the others being Marie Kolabinska and Pierre Boven, who obtained their doctoral degrees at the University of Lausanne under the supervision of Vilfredo Pareto. after obtaining his degree in Lausanne, Samsonoff went back home to Russia, where he continued his economic research and what already promised to be a brilliant academic career. In 1914, however, he was enrolled in World War I, and he died at the front in 1917, not yet 30 years old.
