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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Gary MacLennan <gary.maclenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are comrades aware of anything written on the influence of Nietzsche on > Schumpeter's thinking? It seems to me that the latter's idea of the > 'entrepreneur' has a whiff of the ubermensch about it. > Grateful in advance Here are my notes: von Tunzelmann, G.N. 1995. Technology and Industrial Progress: The Foundations of Economic Growth (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar). 78: Schumpeter's early idea of the heroic entrepreneur seems to have been influenced by Nietzsche's superman. Santarelli, E. and E. Pesciarelli. 1990. "The Emergence of a Vision: The Development of Schumpeter's Theory of Entrepreneurship." History of Political Economy, 22, pp. 677-96. Reinert, Hugo and Erik S. Reinert. 2006. "Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter, Creative Destruction." In Jurgen G. Backhaus and Wolfgang J. M. Drechsler. 2006. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Economy and Society (New York: Springer Science): pp. 55-85. 58: The idea of regeneration goes back to the Egyptian Phoenix, but regeneration is less than creative destruction. 59: Johann Gottfried Herder wrote a book, Despotismus des Orients, which criticized Oriental despotism, although he was sympathetic to Indian philosophy. This interesting Indian philosophy filter down to Schopenhauer and then from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche. 65: Nietzsche's Ubermensch is both the creator and a destroyer: "And whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values. Thus, the highest evil belongs to the highest goodness: but this is creative." werner sombart coined the term "creative destruction." 72: Sombart, Werner. War and Capitalism: "again, however, from destruction. A new spirit of creation arises; the scarcity of wood and the needs of everyday life . forced the discovery or invention of substitutes for would, force the use of coal for heating, forced the invention of Coke for the production of iron. That these events, however, made possible the enormous development of capitalism in the 19th century, is beyond doubt for any well-informed person. Thus, even here, in this decisive point, the invisible threads of commercial and military interests appear closely intertwined." 72: After World War II, "The German tradition in economics ... came to be represented solely by Marx and Schumpeter, a feature which made these two economists seem much more unique than they in effect are when seen in their own historical concept. As we have already mentioned, the Schumpeter assisted in this process, also by systematically neglecting the philosophical foundations of German economics in his History of Economic Analysis." ## Santarelli, E. and E. Pesciarelli. 1990. "The Emergence of a Vision: The Development of Schumpeter's Theory of Entrepreneurship." History of Political Economy, 22, pp. 677-96. 689: "it is possible to argue that the overall `vision' of Schumpeter's two early works has elements in common with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche." Both distinguished between the leader and the herd. 691: "the separateness of the static and dynamic worlds on which Schumpeter dwells at such length in [Schumpeter, 1908] springs from the separateness of the two types of human being that the two worlds underlie." ## -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
