Schumpeter the Superior

Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Joseph Schumpeter: His Life and Work by Richard Swedberg
    Polity, 293 pp, £35.00, November 1991, ISBN 0 7456 0792 6
  • Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher and Politician by Eduard März
    Yale, 204 pp, £22.50, November 1991, ISBN 0 300 03876 3

The greatest horseman in Vienna, the greatest lover in Austria, the greatest economist in the world. This, Joseph Schumpeter used to say, is what he’d set out to be. In one of them, he added, he’d failed. But he never said which. A horse, almost certainly, had let him down. He had a slightly lopsided walk, the result, it was said, of a fall. About women, there is less doubt.

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