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Eugen Varga (November 6 1879 – October 7
1964) was a Marxism|Marxist economist of Hungarian
origin. He participated in the short-lived
Hungarian Soviet Republic  of 1919. After the
overthrow of the Soviet Republic he went to the
USSR|Soviet Union, where he became an economic
adviser to Stalin. 

A large number of his writings were studies of the
international economic conjuncture, in which he
made great effort to assess quantitative trends in
output, investment and employment using official
economic data from numerous countries. He also
extensively studied German imperialism.

In 1946 he published "The Economic Transformation
of Capitalism at the End of the Second World War",
in which he argued that the capitalist system was
more inherently stable than had been hitherto
believed. This led to the closure of the Institute
which he headed (see: Paolo Spriano, Stalin and
the European Communists. London: Verso, 1985).